Text-Only: Just Say “No”
It’s fairly common practice for complex or media-rich sites to offer text-only versions, and after reading about the problems we’ve encountered at various sites on the Web, you may be thinking that text-only might be a good way to meet the challenge of making your site accessible. We want to persuade you that text-only isn’t the way to go most of the time. In this chapter, we’ll visit several sites whose text-only versions offer a substantially different—and substantially less satisfying—user experience than their media-rich originals.
HTML Elements and Attributes Addressed in This Chapter
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<a>, <img>, <area>, <table>
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Accessibility Checkpoints and Standards Addressed in This Chapter
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