I have been having some difficulty with a couple of our technical guys for
some time around the issue of accessibility on our web site.  I am hoping
some of you can help me with a problem that erupted in the last week related
to this.  I need to track down a reference or two to back up my stance on an
issue.

The top page of our web site does has a link to a "text only version" of
just our top level pages (that's the good news).  However, if someone choose
to visit our site via the main "regular" page, not via the text only
version, they are likely to encounter a problem, because the main body of
the top page is graphical, which means the main navigation links are
graphical.  I discovered last week while testing out the "wemedia" screen
reader, that if someone opted to "view" our main page rather than going to
the text only version, they would not even hear that those graphic-based
navigation links are even there, which means they wouldn't get to our second
level (main pages)!    I forward this observation to these guys, and one of
them has basically launched a frontal attack around it, even though I
offered a very simple solution - just add the text based navigation to the
top page that we have on all of our inner pages.

I know I have read in several places a description of the problem and
recommendations about what to do if someone uses graphic-based navigation on
web pages.  Do any of you know any references for that information?  Where
it can be found on-line, so that I can simply refer my colleagues to it?
That way they can't attack me.  If someone else says it and it's in writing,
it takes me out of the equation.  Any assistance you can provide would be so
very appreciated.  Tx.

Jeannie
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