{"id":2854,"date":"2002-09-12T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2002-09-12T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2002-09-12T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2002-09-12T15:58:39","slug":"signal_to_noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/12\/signal_to_noise.html","title":{"rendered":"Signal to Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the unfortunate evolutions of the web in recent years has been an increasing moving away from text<\/i>. It’s no longer enough to have text on your page — even basic information pages — or to use basic HTML links between pages, or anything like that. No, today the big thing is to program sites entire in Flash.<\/p>\n

Flash is fun. Flash is neat. Flash is, well, flashy. <\/p>\n

Flash is also a graphical black box. The eyes of the viewer can read it. But that’s all. <\/p>\n

Blind people can’t, nor can their audio software.<\/p>\n

But, more importantly, neither can Google. And that’s why it’s a technological dead end<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Google is, for all intents, a blind user. A billionaire blind user with tens of millions of friends, all of whom hang on his every word. I suspect Google will have a stronger impact than the ADA in building accessible websites.
\nIn a world where Google likely has a valuation several orders of magnitude higher than any chrome such as flash, graphics, audio, interactivity, or “personalization”, I see a heady revision.<\/p>\n

(ultimately via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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