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@ifixcoinops@retro.social Brilliant thread. Here's a bit of a take on those days from a screen reader user. Screen reader users like me absolutely couldn't stand flash websites. If it needed flash back in 1999 or so until something like half a decade later it wasn't accessible to us at all. It never was a joy to use but at least they eventually added things to make buttons and whatnot visible to screen readers. Screen readers have had options to ignore tables that were just for layout purposes for decades now. We were probably some of the people emailing you about the crap code, no doubt because the result wasn't accessible, although to be fair I don't think there was any WCAG guidelines in 1998. If there was I absolutely bet Frontpage Express didn't comply with them. At least there's guidelines now, which would make things so much better if folk actually went and followed them. I dabbled with Frontpage Express but I never published anything with it..