Taumel:
Flash has its places, (video player definietly, since a text-based browser wouldn't be doing those anyway) but it should never be purposefully used for links unless the site has some kind of revolutionary new structure that simply can't be done without a complex Flash application.
HTML links are not designed to be clicked; they are designed to be selected and triggered. When web developers all assume that this link is to be left clicked and only left clicked which results only in a new page being loaded in the current frame, their web sites lose accessibility. They lose even more of this accessibility when that assumption is done using Flash.
It's usually not much of a problem, but if it's a big company like Nintendo when they're touting accessibility as their philosophy, it is quite bad.
I am almost tempted to write them a letter.
Flash has its places, (video player definietly, since a text-based browser wouldn't be doing those anyway) but it should never be purposefully used for links unless the site has some kind of revolutionary new structure that simply can't be done without a complex Flash application.
HTML links are not designed to be clicked; they are designed to be selected and triggered. When web developers all assume that this link is to be left clicked and only left clicked which results only in a new page being loaded in the current frame, their web sites lose accessibility. They lose even more of this accessibility when that assumption is done using Flash.
It's usually not much of a problem, but if it's a big company like Nintendo when they're touting accessibility as their philosophy, it is quite bad.
I am almost tempted to write them a letter.