Exercise: Add text equivalent to applets and programmatic objects.
The contacts page of the sample website has an embedded flash message welcoming visitors to the page.
- View the contacts page on the tutorial website on a Flash enabled browser.
- View the contacts page on a text only browser, or a browser with Flash disabled.
Note the lack of alternative text for users without access to the Flash player. Take a screen-shot of the page for inclusion in your portfolio.
Edit the contacts.php file and add the alternative text shown in the example below.
<object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
id="button2006"
width="480"
height="60"
data="button2006.swf">
<param name=movie value="button2006.swf">
Contact the photographer Joe Light.
</object>
Take a screen-shot of the page showing the atlternative text, for inclusion in your portfolio.