[LINK] Inaccessible web sites

[Tom Worthington]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 16/02/2010, at 8:32 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> It seems odd they would not provide a web page which residents of
>> such villages would be able to read easily.
> 
> I doubt that many retirement village residents would have javascript
> and flash turned off. Indeed, I wouldn't imagine that any would go to
> such lengths. ...

Retirement village residents are likely to be older and therefore have
poorer eyesight and well as other difficulties with viewing web pages. 
If they are blind, for example, it may be difficult to read the text 
contained in the Flash content. They may be using adaptive devices which 
are not compatible with Javascript and Flash.


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