You have finished the most amazing flash menu you have ever done. Animation everywhere, soung on rollover, cross-fade and opacity… You are very proud of your work and want to show it to your mum. When she arrives on your website, the content is there, images as well but instead of the state of the art menu she just gets a nice white box… No links to navigate, she’s stuck on your first page.

Flash animations and images are more and more used on internet. The average bandwidth for the user grow so the size of website grow as well. It is now common to see “all in flash” website and hight quality images. I wont blame the designers as long as they keep accessibility in mind.

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