[WEB4LIB] text only sites

[Gimon, Charles A]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I had no trouble at all browsing through
your public website using Lynx on WinNT and FreeBSD. What pages do you think
you'll need to provide text-only versions of? Are they in a version that's
not public right now?

(I'm not including your web OPAC here--that's a whole separate discussion
about vendors and their many shortcomings. I doubt any of us have the access
and control over our catalog interfaces that we really need.)

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tana Elias [mailto:telias at scls.lib.wi.us] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:03 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] text only sites
> 
> 
> Hello.  I'm in the process of planning for a redesign of our 
> site and it 
> looks like we'll have to provide text-only access to some of our 
> pages.  Are others doing this currently?  If so, I'd like to 
> know if you 
> create the alternative text-only pages one by one or if you 
> use a software 
> package or service to strip your pages of bells and whistles 
> so they're 
> accessible to all.  Also, do you provide an exact text-only 
> duplicate of 
> your site, or only provide text-only for those pages that 
> cause ADA problems?
> 
> I'm really hoping there's some service out there that will do 
> it for me 
> rather than maintaining two separate versions of each page!
> 
> If people would respond directly to me, I'd be happy to post 
> the results to 
> the list.
> 
> Tana Elias
> Madison (WI) Public Library
>