accessibility legislation
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This sounds potentially horrendous, but I would guess that it is very limited in it's imjplementation. Perhaps down the road it will force MM to incorporate some usability concerns into flash.
I know with buildings we have the ADA (Americans Disability Act) that required all public buildings to retro fit handicapped entrances. Slopes of ramps lessened, door widths, bathroom stalls, on and on. Many were sued for not complying (and still are).
But that's public buildings. The limitations for what you do in your own home are minimal. Also, if you stick and elevator in a building somewhere, you can put as many fancy stairs all over the place, as long as a certain percentage of the building is accessible.So with this, I don't see a terrible text based web in the future, just a legal guideline for largely public sites (like musuems, large ecommerce, gov't, etc. mostly sites that probably already incorporate it). For the private stuff, it's your choice, it's your 'freedom'.