Figure 2.3

The screen shot of IBM.com on June 30, 2001 shows five small images of arrows next to text links in the left hand navigation column. The arrows are not links.

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Figure 2.4

Screen shot of www.compaq.com shows three news items on the left, and each is preceded by an image which is a small greater-than sign in orange or red. Those symbols are like bullets. One can click on the images or on the explanatory text just to the right of the bullet.

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Figure 2.5

Screen shot of CAST.org shows what is in effect a bulleted list on the right part of the page. The bullets are dark squares about the size of the associated text. The bullets are not links. CAST uses > for the alt text.

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Figure 2.6

Screen shot of the National Library Service home page has a welcome message on the left and on the right, a large image of five froups of people using NLS services.

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Figure 2.7

Screen shot of www.ibm.com on 12 December, 2000, showing many images that present the marketing message of the page, as well as images of text that we saw earlier - like ShopIBM.

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Figure 2.8

Screen shot of the same IBM.com as the previous (figure 2.7) with images turned off. Simple rectangles replace the pictures. This illustrates how important those images are for marketing.

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Figure 2.10

This graph shows traffic density on Main and Center streets measured in cars per minute between 8:20 AM and 12 noon on Center and between 9:00 and 12:20 on Main Street. Density ranges from a high of 70 down to 50 cars per minute on Center. On Main street the density drops from 55 down to 35 at 11 AM and then back up to 55 at 12:20.

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Figure 2.12

Prominently positioned in the center of the home page is a collage of images related to Trace's Designing a More Usable World for All theme. In the background outlines of North and South America are superimposed on a blue-tinted image of the earth. Faded images of a telephone, a web page and an information kiosk are placed above the earth image. The text Designing a More Usable World - for All appears in the lower left corner and images representative of the list of links belowappear along the right side of the image.

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Figure 2.13

The screen shot of a Reuters story "Crippled USS Cole Back in U.S. for Repairs," has a small postage stamp size picture on the left hand side. The alt text for that image is "reuter's photo" and it is displayed on the screen shot.

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Figure 2.14

The screen shot shows the picture from the previous figure enlarged to about three inches by 2 inches. Below the picture is the "long description."

"The Norwegian heavy transport ship the Blue Marlin carries the USS Cole through the Mississippi sound toward ..."

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Figure 3.1

Screen shot of the Bobby application. It is a Java application and has menu items File, Edit, Options and Help. Then a row of large buttons which are in the tab order but whose function is available from the menus. The main display area is a list of the pages avalyzed below. The remaining part of the winodw contins controls for submitting a web page for evaluation.

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Figure 3.2

This is a screen shot of a Bobby report. This report is an HTML file. It is being viewed in Internet Explorer. The report says that the page had no errors but adds that there are seven items (user checks) that need to be manually checked to establish Bobby approval.

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Figure 3.3

This screen shot of Lynx shows a text view of the ibm.com site. It is clear that all the data is there. The alt text works as it should. The current link is highlighted in red.

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Figure 3.4

This screen shot of Lynx viewing an inaccessible site is filled with things like [spacer], [NEW_NEW_06], [USEMAP:NEW_NEW_17.gig]. There actually is no useful information in the 15 lines of text. The entire page is images and none of them have alt text.

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Figure 3.5

The screen shot of IBM Home Page Reader shows two frames in the main window. The top is the graphical view of the current page (which happens to be www.ibm.com) and the lower frame shows the text view of the page, that which Home Page Reader will speak.

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Figure 4.4

The CNN screen shot has a search form and advertisement at the top. It has many links for departments like sports and travel down the left. It has lists of stories down the right. The main story is in the center but it is read after all the other material.

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Figure 4.10

The screen shot of the Alabama State Treasury site shows two frames of the simplest variety. The frame on the left is a navigation frame with graphical buttons for "Home," "Overview," "News," etc. The larger frame on the left is the main content, here just bearing the department seal and a welcome message.

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Figure 6.1

The screen shot of www.pbs.org/newshour has pictures of Gwen Ifill and Michael Deaver next to the transcript of what each said for a News Hour broadcast in early March 2001.

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Figure 11.5

This screen shot of the TSBVI page shows a very large banner in the center of the screen, navigation on the right, and the words "adaptive technology" written bottom to top on the left with white letters on a blue background.

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Figure 11.6

In this screen shot of the TSVBI home page with style sheets disabled, the large banner is gone (probably at the bottom of the page), the vertical flag saying "adaptive technology " is gone, and the navigation links are at the top left.

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