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LIFT Text Transcoder is not the answer

When it comes to accessibility LIFT text-transcoder should be considered a component of a solution (if considered at all) and not the answer to being accessible and 508 compliant. As far as I'm concerned LIFTs text-transcoder only gives you a printer-friendly page...IT IS NOT A REPAIR TOOL! The text transcoder can not add ALT text when there is no text; it can't make poor ALT tag syntax (ex. photo) better (ex. photo: headshot of Bill Gates).

Basically, with the text-transcoder you are going to get a linearized version of the page with the same acccessibility hurdles and roadblocks that existed before. Think I'm mistaken? Read this post from alttags.com about the Sacramento County website and it's use of LIFT text-transcoder.

Do You Care About Accessibility? | 3/31/2004

posted by Paul N. @ 8:23 PM