On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Gerry White wrote:
> Well - suffice to say that I am not one to talk, I love flash and I think
> its undervalued and abused ... BUT
>
> This has to be the worst website! - http://www.trump.com/
What about the designers of their web site, "The 7th Art"?[1]
If you have JavaScript disabled, the links in the imagemap on their
entry page just takes you to the top of the same page (where you are
already):
http://the7thart.com/
The JavaScript (if you have it enabled or if you can edit or view the
JavaScript source to find the new page address) takes you to:
http://the7thart.com/window.html
which *then* requires Flash.
They definitely did *not* have accessibility in mind when they designed
their site.
<theory type="conspiracy rumour of the week">
Perhaps by driving away everyone except those who do have JavaScript and
Flash enabled, they restrict themselves to clueless customers who don't
have any awareness of the need for accessibility[2] and can be more easily
suckered into paying for an inaccessible website.
</theory>
[1] Found by viewing their SWF files with a text editor to find some
other SWF-laden pages on their site and an imagemap with a link to
www.the7thart.com.
[2] nor security
--
``Why don't you find a more appropiate newsgroup to post this tripe into?
This is a meeting place for a totally differnt kind of "vision impairment".
Catch my drift?'' -- "jim" in alt.disability.blind.social regarding an
off-topic religious/political post, March 28, 2005