[WEB4LIB] text only sites

[Andrew Cunningham]

Hi Tana,


I tend to work predominately in text for most of the site, due to
accessibility issues and the fact that i need material on teh site to be
veiwable fromwith lynx and otehr text browsers ...

the creative use of CSS allows you to provide a more visually appealing
appearance to a text site.

another alternative is to use something like "Betsie" a perl script
developed by teh BBC to provide a text only, large font, high contrast
colour version of their sites. The BBC allow peopel to download and use
Betsie on their own sites. 

I cann't remember the url for the Betsie homepage, have a look at
http://www.openroad.net.au/access/

there should be a link to Betsie on that page.


Ciao

Andj.


At 01:05 PM 4/25/01 -0700, Tana Elias wrote:
>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
>
>