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Web Accessibility of the Presidential Candidate Sites, December 9, 1999

The Candidates' Sites as Viewed in Lynx

These sites were visited from November 29 to December 4, 1999


The Lynx Browser is the long-time standard for accessing Web sites for text. We used version 2.8, running in a DOS window in Windows 95. It presents nearly the identical screen display as does Unix, and can be saved and read, or the screen 'scraped' and the information read immediately. Lynx also provides a technique to access helper applications to play multimedia.

Gary Bauer - Bauer site evaluation summary.
Bauer's site used a graphic front end. We captured the front end and screens one further level deep.
View of Gary Bauer Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Gary Bauer Site Page 2 in Lynx View of Gary Bauer Site Page 3 in Lynx
Home - 1 Page Next - 1 of 2 Pages Next - 2 of 2 Pages


Bill Bradley - Bradley site evaluation summary.
Bradley's site used frames. We captured the frame entry and screens from the main navigation page.
View of Bill Bradley Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Bill Bradley Site Page 2 in Lynx View of Bill Bradley Site Page 3 in Lynx
Home Frame - 1 Page Next - 1 of 2 Pages Next - 2 of 2 Pages


Pat Buchanan - Buchanan site evaluation summary.
Buchanan's site used many images without ALTs. We captured three screens to gather his material.
View of Pat Buchanan Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Pat Buchanan Site Page 2 in Lynx View of Pat Buchanan Site Page 3 in Lynx
Page 1 of 3 Page 2 of 3 Page 3 of 3


George W. Bush - Bush site evaluation summary.
Bush's site opens with a navigation map which is rendered as image names rather than contextual ones.
View of George W. Bush Site Page 1 in Lynx View of George W. Bush Site Page 2 in Lynx View of George W. Bush Site Page 3 in Lynx
Page 1 of 3 Page 2 of 3 Page 3 of 3


Steve Forbes - Forbes site evaluation summary.
Forbes's site has text greatly obscured by a hundred unnamed images and unnamed image links, and an incomprehensible title page..
View of Steve Forbes Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Steve Forbes Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Steve Forbes Site Page 2 in Lynx View of Steve Forbes Site Page 3 in Lynx
Home - 1 Page Page 1 of 3 Page 2 of 3 Page 3 of 3


Al Gore - Gore site evaluation summary.
Gore's site has readable text throughout by putting the navigation frame on the right, so the text comes first.
View of Al Gore Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Al Gore Site Page 2 in Lynx View of Al Gore Site Page 3 in Lynx
Page 1 of 3 Page 2 of 3 Page 3 of 3


Orrin Hatch - Hatch site evaluation summary.
Hatch's site gives very little information about him because it empasizes the 'Skinny Cat' text, not the candidate.
View of Orrin Hatch Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Orrin Hatch Site Page 2 in Lynx
Page 1 of 2 Page 2 of 2


Alan Keyes - Keyes site evaluation summary.
Keyes has a site with every kind of barrier, from unnamed links through confusing frame loops.
View of Alan Keyes Site Page 1 in Lynx View of Alan Keyes Site Page 2 in Lynx View of Alan Keyes Site Page 3 in Lynx
Home - 1 Page Next - 1 of 2 Pages Next - 2 of 2 Pages


John McCain - McCain site evaluation summary.
McCain checks the browser and returns a page with a full set of links. The subsequent pages are more descriptive.
View of John McCain Site Page 1 in Lynx View of John McCain Site Page 2 in Lynx View of John McCain Site Page 3 in Lynx
Home - 1 Page Next - 1 of 2 Pages Next - 2 of 2 Pages



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