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Adding a "Text Only" Transcoder Link
to Your Website Home Page

 

 

Follow the easy steps below to add a "Text-Only Version" link to your home page and you'll have a much more accessible website. A few seconds after clicking the link, users will see a text-only view of your web site. There's no need to worry, your original graphical site is left intact for all others to see. This is a wonderful, free feature. Check it out!

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Add a "Text-Only Version" link to translate your graphical web site (sample shown below)...

view of Text-Only link on home page

...into a "text-only" site assistive technology users can access (sample shown below)...

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Here's how to do it! (instructions refer to the two pictures shown below)...

step one  Open your web site home page (index.html) in your favorite web editor--Word, FrontPage, Dreamweaver

step two  Locate a spot very near the top of your page and type the words "Text-Only Version" (see example below)

step 3  Select the words "Text-Only Version" and, using your web page editor, create a hyperlink to the following address:      (see example below)

      "http://homer.htctu.fhda.edu:8080/tt/http://www.smccd.net/accounts/youremailusername"

step 4  File > Save your page. Upload it to your site...and try it out!

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