RE: New York Times web site

All,
It might also be the best way to convey information to low bandwidth areas,
which includes a large portion of the world.

Sincerley,

Mike BUrks


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Subject: RE: New York Times web site


At 08:19 PM 2/10/2000 , Scott Luebking wrote:
>That was the checkpoint I was referring to.  However, my statement
>was not about text-only web sites, but web sites with parallel
>graphic and text-only web pages which the checkpoint strongly
>urges avoiding unless absolutely necessary.

"absolutely necessary" is hard to define.

Note, also, that it doesn't forbid the creation of text-only
sites for _non-disability-access_ reasons.  For example, it's
possible that they think a text-only site is the best way to
convey their information or they're trying to cater to a Lynx
crowd.


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Kynn Bartlett                                    mailto:kynn@hwg.org
President, HTML Writers Guild                    http://www.hwg.org/
AWARE Center Director                          http://aware.hwg.org/

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