Flashability
Section Overview
This section addresses the issues within Flash content associated with visual disabilities other than blindness. Partial blindness, color blindness and tunnel vision are a few examples of disabilities in this category.
Not all people with a visual impairment are blind. Color blindness, as well as other limited vision conditions exist and can be quite common. These people can usually view graphical content on the web, but can experience some difficulties while doing so. People with partial blindness may have a hard time reading smaller text. People with tunnel vision, among others, may find it difficult to read through wider blocks of text. Many of these issues are easily fixed with better designing practices and typically don’t require any additional or third party technologies.
Although, visual impairments are the biggest threat to Flash applications, Flash’s advanced capabilities offer most of these problems very effective solutions. Users who only have impaired vision rather than complete blindness can benefit most from some of these solutions. For example, since Flash natively supports vector graphics, elements within an interface, as well as the content can be scaled cleanly during zooming. The pixilation and distortion resulting from zooming on a standard HTML interface can often be more disorienting than helpful.