This is in responcse to your posting. I believe many of your comments are correct if taken in context of the old text-only (seperate) methiods of the past – but this is not that. We have posted more information to add information to the dicsussion and I could if you would like show you some real word examples where access has been improved by the implementation of the LIFT Text Transcoder. I would encourage you to read more into this new addition to help unlock content for people with disabilities at:
http://www.usablenet.com/accessibility_usability/textonly.html

Regards
Jason Taylor
UsableNet