Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Usability over accessibility flash

Usability over accessibility
In fact I didn’t think accessibility as quite big of a problem either, but it was one of the listed disadvantages in the reading, so I used it for my headline.
There are reasons, why we learned flash programs in class other then others that have been mentioned in the reading. One is it’s advantage on usability.
As the reading has mentioned in Chapter two, more then 90 % of the American user have access to the flash player, and even 44% of the Asian countries has program include flash player in their computer.
Even if one does not have a flash player in their computer, they can easy download one off the internet, and install it without even restarting computers. That might seem like a minor point when we are free. But as I heard from other classes, in the information overload age, people don’t have much patience to wait around. They want to click and get information that they want to see, and want to hear. And flash offer us that option.
Although we might have a bit hard time for making the search engines with the flash player that to us as journalists might be a little bit inconvenience. But our jobs are to search and collect information that should not be a problem to us at all.
After looking learning flash information from the reading, and from class, I really think that using flash has more advantages than disadvantages. I am glad I can learn it from class.

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