On Wed, 30 May 2012, Stephenson, Mary wrote:
> Go here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f8ac9caa#/f8ac9caa/1
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> Click on the "download as PDF" icon at the top right. Once it is downloaded you can print it.
I would say "that doesn't help for people with print disabilities" but actually people with a wide variety of disabilities can't use that page at all. Flash is so last-decade, and for a reason: not only is it non-accessible to screenreaders, voice users, and anybody who's keyboard-only, but it's inaccessible to people on mobile, an increasing segment of the population. (Flash can be made to have limited accessibility as long as you ignore the keyboard-trap requirement of WCAG, but it rarely is, and this application was not. There's no alternative text for any of those buttons.)
Up until recently the way to solve this problem was with well-written AJAX, but these days, they might as well just go with HTML 5 and be done with it.
-Deborah
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Deborah Kaplan
Digital Resources Archivist
Digital Collections and Archives
Tufts University
Received on Thu May 31 2012 - 09:38:29 EDT