Text-only Page

Accessibility Standards Checklist

Requirement

Ensure that dynamic content is accessible or provide an alternative presentation or page.

Reason

If compliance to the accessibility standards cannot be achieved, you must provide users with a text-only page that follows the standards. Text-only pages must be maintained and updated whenever content on your primary Web page is changed.

Examples

Text-Only

Provide a link to a text-only page which reads from left to right, top to bottom and follows guidelines outlined in this requirement only when there is no other way to make the content accessible, or when it offers significant advantages over the "main" version for certain disability types. Some tools have been devised to conform pages to text-only. Please check out Betsie-enhanced tools. Betsie is the filter program used by the BBC to create an automatic text-only version of its Web page.

"Text-only" and "accessible" are NOT synonymous terms. Text-only sites may help people with certain types of visual disabilities, but are not always helpful to those with motor or hearing disabilities.

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