Isn’t Text-Only a Common Practice?
Many sites do offer text-only variants. However, it’s ironic that, for example, when we visited the National Science Foundation’s Web site in July 2001, the first link on the site was a graphical link (!) to a “text version of [the] NSF Web site.” [1] The New York State site also has a graphical link to a text-only version, this one labeled “Welcome to New York State homepage click here for text version.” [2] The states of Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming all offered access to text-only versions of their sites as of late July 2001. The new White House site unveiled in September 2001 had a text-only link ...
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