[WEB4LIB] text only sites

[Gimon, Charles A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gimon, Charles A 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:55 PM
> To: 'web4lib at webjunction.org'
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] text only sites
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
>