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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 10, 2016 11:21AM

> I know text-only does not mean accessible and I think tools like this give our web teams the erroneous feeling that content is accessible when it is not. I also hate the lack of equity with separate-but-equal approaches.

Personally I find text only pages often less accessible because visual clues such as color, borders, spacing, images, font sizes, etc. are removed and just the text is left behind in a way that is sometimes more difficult to read and focus on for some people with low vision.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
Chief Accessibility Officer
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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Thompson, Rachel
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:59 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Lift Assistive

Hi, esteemed list.

One of the web decision makers on our campus is asking for opinions on the Lift Assistive tool. It has been in use on our campus for a long time as a way to produce a text-only version of web pages.

I know text-only does not mean accessible and I think tools like this give our web teams the erroneous feeling that content is accessible when it is not. I also hate the lack of equity with separate-but-equal approaches.

If our web resources are created to meet WCAG 2.0 AA (our goal), is there a reason to keep our Lift Assistive license?

If you have an opinion or have faced similar questions, could you please share?

Much obliged,
Rachel

Dr. Rachel S. Thompson
Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility Center for Instructional Technology University of Alabama