Designing accessible website - therefore using Html not Flash (?) so can't have...

[toriwalmsley1]

...draggable objects? I'm an art director so i'm not sure about the possibilities of different methods of programming other than Flash, however this site needs to be fully accessible to anyone on any computer. Was hoping to do a concept where 'cards' could be re-arranged and dragged around the screen as user chooses - I just need to know if this would be possible and what kind of programming i would need.

[guy b]

yes, you can have drag and drop objects using java script. I haven't used the code for a while so don't really remember. But the code should be easy to find on google. Try here maybe it helps: http://cm.megasolutions.net/blogs/javascript/archive/2006/10/01/JavaScript-Drag-abd-Drop.aspx

[wi_guy]

If you'd like your site to be fully accessible and yet be able to click-and-drag stuff around on the screen, that's going to be impossible, because you can't count on the user to even have their javaScript turned on.Here's what I'd recommend.Implement a "browser sniffer" system that checks to see if the browser can handle Flash. You can do this using PHP or ASP with a couple lines of code in a library file, and link to the library at the top of every page. Then, if the browser sniffer determines the user can handle Flash, do it the way you normally do it. If it can't, redirect them to a flat HTML page with links like "move card up""move card down" etc.To make a site fully accessible, I recommend you really bone up on your CSS skills. I find that when a site is built with minimal HTML code (avoiding the font and span tags, and use h1 h2 h3 like the old days) and lots of CSS, it degrades very nicely even for handheld devices.