The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89030   Message #1676140
Posted By: treewind
22-Feb-06 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: Kate Bush's Site
Subject: RE: Kate Bush's Site
I know of two mudcatters who are blind. There could well be more - Mudcat's a very disability-friendly site.

Kate's site is all one big Macromedia flash presentation.
Not only is it useless to blind people (who seem to get along fine with screen readers on the web when sites have normal text, and better still when the images are properly annotated with ALT tags) but building your web site that way won't get you any google ranking. KB's site only appears on Google because hundreds of other sites sites link to it, her name is in the URL, and there's only one pair of keywords needed in the search box.

Actually there is an HTML version of her site (which loads nice and quickly) but you don't find a link to that until you get past the all-Flash home page. DUH!

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