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Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone
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Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

by Ph.D. John M. Slatin, Sharron Rush
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
11h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Turning the Telescope Around: Equivalent Alternatives for Text

Throughout this chapter (and for the most part throughout this book), we’ve been talking about creating equivalent text alternatives for nontextual material such as images, sounds, video and animation, scripts and applets, and so on. It is not particularly difficult, technically speaking, to include these text alternatives, which work across many platforms and browsing devices as well as many assistive technology devices. WCAG 1.0 and the Section 508 standards share this emphasis on text. But before we leave this topic, it’s worth thinking for a moment about situations when text might not be the answer.

Reading is difficult for many people. In some cases, the difficulty is due to ...

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