Re:Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face
by bmelton on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @01:39PM
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Fall behind in what sense? Obviously, if the multimedia content isn't transcribed quickly enough, then that makes sense, but I would also guess less consequential than if a given page weren't transformed from 'marked up' to 'text', but in the latter case, if the backend is dynamic, and just changing the output format, why would it fall behind?
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People just don't want to maintain 2 sites. Extra features and sections often don't get updated to the text only rendering.
I guess my point is that screen readers like (even prefer) well written markup. A text-only site is a kickback from when they couldn't and the accessibility guidelines were written to deal with that.