ADA and Web Pages

Michael Reagan mreagan at email.csun.edu
Fri Apr 18 13:45:51 EDT 1997


Rule of thumb: if you can read it in Lynx, a screen reader can make it 
available as sound or Braille.

Tables are a problem -- so is preformatted text in columns -- because 
the screen reader goes line by line rather than column by column.  

<br> tags can be used in table cells to force new lines in Lynx.  This 
works for simple tables, e.g. 
	http://www.csun.edu/library/web/hbshelv.html

For more on this and related topics, see my Universe at Your 
Fingertips (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/universe/) presentation
	http://www.csun.edu/~mreagan/acctoc.html

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