- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:24:36 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Can someone please explain to me the difference between having the server > dynamically produce the text only web page and the results of browsing the > page with the text only browser, such as Lynx? The main difference is that the Lynx user can still fetch the picture if the alternative text was missing or inappropriate and can read the scripting if scripting has been used for some fundamental purpose and stripped by the filter. Basically it removes control from the user. Having said that, I will always go to the Betsie page on core BBC web pages (BBC Betsie doesn't produce purely text only pages), when using a GUI browser, simply because the layout is cleaner. If I'm on a BBC regional page, this is much less likely to work as the authors are not accessibility aware and are likely to use constructs that break when filtered by Betsie.
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