Creating Text-Only version of pages

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Joined: Jan 1970

Greetings,

To make my site accessible to people with sight problems I would like to create Text-Only versions of each page. At the moment, I'm copying and pasting text from the 'main' pages but it's a real pain. I know of one cgi scripts that do it but it's a real nightmare to set up.

I'm on a Windows 2000 server so are there any ASP scripts that do it? I would consider changing to a UNIX server again, as my current host is very unhelpful and I'd like to change, so any PHP or CGI scripts would be helpful. Can it be done with CSS?

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Joined: Feb 2000

It can be done with CSS if you have the rest of your pages set up with well formatted (x)HTML and CSS.

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Busy's picture

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Joined: May 2001

if you don't have it formatted with xhtml/css you can make the content into a variable and call that and anything else on the text only page, but if you have formatting inside the content it can get a little messy

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