Alt and Beyond: Making Web Graphics Accessible
http://www.evolt.org/article/Alt_and_beyond_Making_web_graphics_accessible/4090/44510/index.html

Roberts, Tim
evolt
2002

Abstract:

Many developers still view graphics and accessibility as being on opposing ends of the web development scale. The truth is that including graphics in your documents does not mean your page has to be any less accessible. In fact, as we will see later in this article, graphics can be used to enhance the accessibility of a page. There are, however, a few key techniques that you can employ to ensure that you don't have to construct alternative 'Text-Only' documents. The web truly is the last frontier where we can treat all people equally with 'one size fits all' web documents. There is just a little bit extra we need to do to achieve this.