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Re: usablenet's text transponder

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Jan 18, 2007 7:30AM

My problem is with people using the service and then claiming that their
site is accessible. Most web sites today contain many dynamic elements
and controls. A text transcript of the site does not provide equivalent
functionality. Finally if the site contains images that do not have
appropriate text alternatives through alt, captions or linked
descriptions then the transponder cannot even present all of the
content.

Try this, run your site through the text transponder. Review the output.
If it is really equivalent to your site then your site is probably
already accessible. My guess is that the output of the transponder will
not be equivalent.

mike

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Subject: [WebAIM] usablenet's text transponder

Does anyone have any experience with Usablenet's text transponder? And
how do people feel about the accessibility of automatically generating
text only pages of a web site? Doesn't that set up an us vs. them
scenario? A separate but equal?

I guess something about it bothers me.

Cheryl Amato
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