Comments on: When Will Game Developers Realise Flash is Not the Way?

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:27:26 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal in the UK aswell, but I don’t think it’s actually enforced anywhere you have that rule.

By: Yian

Yian — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:06:14 +0000

Jeremy: Eh, but using Australia’s logic, a website filled with images without alt tags (I’ve seen those before) would be discriminatory too, no? =P I think everything is discriminatory in some manner, it’s just a matter of how serious the discrimination is. In any case, the law is rather amusing…

And Flash is sometimes annoying (but Java applets are worse when they don’t warn you). But it’s not just limited to game developers–lots of photographers/designers use it too, when they could easily code their site with plain HTML and CSS.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:09 +0000

If I remember correctly, I think Flash-based websites are technically illegal in Australia, because of the coverage of anti-discrimination laws here. Flash-based sites discriminate against people with a disability that depend on things like a screen reader.

Of course, I emphasised the word technically, because nobody ever does that. Somebody once came up with the conclusion that any site that’s not valid (X)HTML is against the laws here, but error handling is a part of the SGML specification, is it not? ;) I guess you could say a webpage without a DOCTYPE discriminates because it relies on unstandardised de-facto behaviour of browsers.

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:37:15 +0000

Yeah, you’re right–when there’s no apparent reason to do so. Lesigh.

By: Dean Newman

Dean Newman — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:36:14 +0000

Movie producers are just as bad… when announcing movies they are always using flash, take “The Simpsons Movie” for example. http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/