By the end of 2005, Macromedia had been acquired by Adobe and the AJAX term had been coined. AJAX was used to describe a broad group of web technologies that can be used to implement a web application that communicates with a server in the background, without interfering with the current state of the page. On April 5, 2006 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first draft specification for the object in an attempt to create an official web standard. Certainly there was a move away from Flash driven websites to more standard compliant that also met with accessible standards. This was reinforced with the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act's of 1995 and 2005.
"The courts will also no doubt take guidance from the outcome of an Australian case in 2000, when a blind man successfully sued the Sydney Olympics' organising committee over their inaccessible website. (The Australian Disability Discrimination Act quite closely resembles that of the UK's). UK courts may also take into account the New York case against Ramada.com and Priceline.com, who were also successfully sued over the accessibility of their websites.
It's widely believed that if, or perhaps more appropriately when, a case makes it to court that the W3C accessibility guidelines will be used to assess a website's accessibility and ultimately decide the outcome of the case. The W3C is the Internet governing body and its web accessibility guidelines can be found on its website." Trenton Moss, www.webcredible.co.uk
Today, things have moved on and organisations have become alot more interested in web accessibility standards (WAI) which has meant a move away from Flash driven sites. In 2007/8 I gained experience working as a Web Developer at the British Association of Occupational Theapists whose site was audited by the RNIB and had implemented practices to ensure that there site was accessible as possible.
Much of what could be done using proprietary technologies can also be achieved using open standards and technologies such as php, mysql, XHTML, CSS, XML and Javascript. Today, organisations are more interested in which Framework you are familiar with or what Content Management System you have experience with rather than what software you use. I also have experience of producing bespoke Content Management Systems that can integrate into your existing systems or processes.