ASP Best Practices

Supporting Text-Only Browsing

Many users browse the Web in text-only mode in order to speed up the display of information to their browsers. To ensure that you present as much content as possible to these users, take the following steps to support text-only display:

Include text-only navigation objects, such as menus.
Include the alternative (ALT) parameter with each image tag to provide information about images.

For example:

<IMG SRC="gravity.jpg" ALT="Picture of apple falling">

When providing client-side image maps, add a text-only list of the mapped areas, with links to the information that would have been loaded if the user had clicked on a map link.