Text-Only Facility

For users with disabilities, it can be helpful to provide the means to view pages in a 'text-only' format. This is a page whose content has been stripped down to only the most basic html elements, such as H?, P, BR, A, OL, UL, LI, B (or STRONG).

A well designed web page does not need to have a text-only version just to fulfil the accessibility regulations, in many cases, a well structured text based navigation method will actually prove superior. Many of the schools sites do not offer a text-only version, yet function adequately in text-only readers. Nevertheless, we provide a text-only parser which will convert any page referred to it into a text based format. This resides on our server and converts HTML pages into plain text.

This facility is built into any page on the central website (through the page header), but can be easily be added to your own site by adding the following link to each page.

<a href="http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wac.cgi">text-only</a>

• You must ensure the text-only version is the informational equivalent of the graphical version.
• This feature will only work on sites within the brighton.ac.uk and bsms.ac.uk domains.