Getting ready to get ready

But before I submit

[cynthia]

I have a commercial site, so I have to pay. I've been putting this off forever with the excuse that I needed to make our primary site look as good as I can.
Now having twitched and tweaked this thing most of the last several days, triple checked all links, I'm ready to send it in.
So now, has any one ever paid and not gotten in the directory?

[markd]

I wonder where this leaves Flash sites?

I am sure I have seen many 'Flash only' sites included in Yahoo. Regardless of the 'search engine friendliness' of such sites, (bearing in mind that Yahoo is a directory anyway) it is a technology that is in widespread use (and abuse) on the web.

Does this mean that Yahoo users are deprived of the information that may be present on these sites?

[Macguru]

I am pretty sure 100% flash sites included in Yahoo! listings have some plug in detection device to supply the HTML version if not found. If not, they probably got "updated" later on after inclusion. I have seen such redirects using meta refresh or JS.

[glengara]

Macguru, I meant your e-mail isn't in your user profile.

[Macguru]

Ha! OK... No I preffer to leave it out from any web site. Some bad robots are cropping them for Spammers.

But if you click on my "Member Name" in the member profile you will discover a very usefull feature of this site called the Sticky Mail. It enables us to send private messages to each other.

It took me months to find it...

[Macguru]

Glengara, I am keeping an eye on this tread [webmasterworld.com]. It is a possible clue to confirm the romor that Yahoo listings could be periodically reviewed.

[glengara]

Thanks Macguru, I'd noticed that, but since it mentioned a JS re-direct I'd put it down to that,and didn't twig the wider implication. Would this not imply Yahoo spidered the site? I thought they didn't do that.

[Macguru]

I read somewhere they have one spider looking for dead sites and another that imitates human visitors in its behavior.

[glengara]

Ok, a new slant on Yahoo and JS; I'd assumed we were simply dealing with older browsers but I think it's more a question of Screen Access Software.
In the BizEx submission guidelines there's a click-box saying:
<My site supports multiple browsers and capabilities>.

Struck me when I read it as pretty obscure, and assumed it related to matters technological. I now suspect it relates to human capabilities.

The article below on Web accessibility by the National Federation Of The Blind gives some info on JS, Flash and Java. [nfb.org...]

Makes much more sense that Yahoo wants to facilitate our visually impaired colleagues than simply cater to antique browsers.

[Eric_Jarvis]

UK law requires certain sites to be accessible by text to speech browsers...it should be standard practise...it certainly isn't difficult to be basically accessible...and it isn't tremendously hard for a site to work well in them

this isn't an add on if you start a design from the POV of the concept of the site rather than by "doodling"