"Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> writes: > Javascript, pdf, and flash all have purely accessible ways of being > accessed. PDF's especially have come a long way, flash is quickly catching > up, and javascript only causes problems during certain events where keyboard ... > I actually think such technologies should be increased, or whatever is to JavaScript is a bad idea. Do you really want random people running random code on your box? Quite a few firewall administrators agree with me about this, because they don't allow it. Unfortunately, we have to live with it. PDF has one use-case IMHO: the creation of printable documents. I use it quite often for this purpose. However, storing documents in PDF is a step backward, rather than a step forward. Why? PDF is *not* a machine-readable format. HTML, ASCII, RTF, and even Microsoft Word are machine-readable. This does not hold for PDF and PostScript. Unfortunately, many people seem to use PDF for document storage, even though it is not suited to this task. As for Flash, I cannot say much about it. From what I know, its purpose is the transmission of animated movies. I doubt those are terribly accessible. Regardless, sending me movies that I cannot see is a waste of my bandwidth. Finally, Flash is a proprietary format. Why should I care about it? -- Chris
