Web nuisances are getting more nuisiancy.

[elfs]

Note to all web producers out there: if your Flash app messes with my volume settings and suddenly and without warning turns up the music I'm currently listening to VERY LOUD and inflicts pain, you will have lost my business.

CBS's news site did that to me this morning.

My computer is not a television and this is not the Outer Limits. You do not control the audio, or the video, nor all I see and hear. I do.

Comments

[kengr]

This, like endlessly looping midi files as "background", is something that is apt to get them sued under the ADA. Because both will screw with the screen readers used by the blind.

*all* sound should be optional, as should all video.

And don't get me started on hard coded font sizes or "cute" text & background colors that wind up making things hard to read because they forgot about some of the other colors that default (like "visited link").

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That's the problem. The sound was optional. The flash app came up and said "Click to watch." It didn't play anything, it just set my own audio to maximum volume. Ouch!

[kengr]

Ok. That makes even less sense than the pages that shrink my browser window!