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

[(Anonymous)]

As a user of aforementioned screen reader software I can vouch that things messing with your master volume is a royal pain in the behind. That's why I use Windows media player, one thing Microsoft actually did properly... at least in respect to the volume controls. If something messes with my master volume (like Power DVD) it screws up the volume of the speech output too.

BTW, the site seems good enough with my software Elf. Nice work.