By alexmc on

How do I make sure that my site is easily accessible by those with visual impairments?

Obviously I need to do things like use contrasting colours, not too small text, and alt tags for images, but is there a way of generating a text only version of a Drupal site?

Cheers.

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gravyface commented

Check this out:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#Guidelines

As for screen readers themselves, a text only version is not strictly necessary, as long as you use good semantic markup, use alt tags, and use a "skip navigation" link.
To see what a screen reader would generally "see", use a text only browser like Lynx:
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

Check out alistapart.com for a ton of good articles on the subject, written by the industry's best.

You can also validate accessibility online (http://www.contentquality.com/) or with the "Web Developer" FireFox extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60)