Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Slashdot Book Review : Constructing Accessible Web Sites Slashdot has just posted a book review of Constructing Accessible Web Sites (book excerpts at Amazon). The book includes a chapter on Flash on which the reviewer offers the following: I was surprised that chapter 10 was devoted to Flash, as I expected that Flash coverage in an accessibility book would be limited to a few paragraphs lambasting Macromedia for creating such an inaccessible technology. Well, it turns out that the new version of Flash supports accessibility much better than previous ones. This chapter was a real eye-opener for me. Clearly there is more work to be done but well done to Macromedia for putting accessibility support in! You can read the entire review, and comments here. 11:26:47 AM    comment []  Google It!

DRK : Stock Services Sample Application Update I have found an issue with the Stock Services sample application and ActionScript / ColdFusion Library available on the DRK. In the Stock.cfc ColdFusion component file, the following code that starts at line 89:   <cfset var startMonth =  Month(startDate)  />   <cfset var startDay =  Day(startDate)/>   <cfset var startYear =  Year(startDate) />   <cfset var endMonth =  Month(endDate) /> should be changed to:   <cfset var startMonth =  Month(startDate) - 1 />   <cfset var startDay =  Day(startDate)/>   <cfset var startYear =  Year(startDate) />   <cfset var endMonth =  Month(endDate) - 1 /> If you noticed that the sample stock charting application began acting erratically, this should solve the problem. Sorry for the hassle. 12:39:45 AM    comment []  Google It!