ABSTRACT
What is a text? I suspect you are presently visualizing something alphanumeric.
Most people to whom I have asked this question describe text in terms of the
alphabet or a book or some other body of print. I argue that is a very narrow
definition. There is a broader one that makes working with interactive media
much more exciting. One thing we need to be able to do as we create and evaluate
content is recognize that everything on the page is a text. So when we evaluate
a web page we have to look at all genres, even genres we would never have
recognized as genres. This chapter is dedicated to persuading you that everything
you can see and much more is a text.
