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Re: usablenet's text transponder

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Jan 18, 2007 8:10AM

On 18/01/07, Cheryl Amato < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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 blogged about it in 2003:
http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2003/11/20/lift-text-transcoder/

I don't think anything in web accessibility has changed since then
that suddenly makes transcoding a good idea.

> I guess something about it bothers me.

You're not alone in that regard.

Tim