Turning the Telescope Around: Equivalent Alternatives for Text
Throughout this chapter (and for the most part throughout this book), we’ve been talking about creating equivalent text alternatives for nontextual material such as images, sounds, video and animation, scripts and applets, and so on. It is not particularly difficult, technically speaking, to include these text alternatives, which work across many platforms and browsing devices as well as many assistive technology devices. WCAG 1.0 and the Section 508 standards share this emphasis on text. But before we leave this topic, it’s worth thinking for a moment about situations when text might not be the answer.
Reading is difficult for many people. In some cases, the difficulty is due to ...
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