- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:37:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> I still maintain that adjacent links that happen to appear on a line
> break
which will vary by font size, resolution, window width, choice of browser,
and other factors
> is impossible to determine without further inspection such as navigating
> to the links with a key board, or hovering over the link with a mouse,
> unless you happening to be using an assistive device which will expose
> the links for you.
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. You click one or the other or both. Big deal.
> Because of the number of variables in output, it would be impossible for
> a content developer to asce rtain for definite that two adjacent links
> would not occur at a line break in f ree flowing text, so I would like
> to see this guideline kept in WCAG 2.
It was and will forevermore be a user-agent issue. Any sequence of
characters delimited with <a href=""> and </a> is unambiguously a link.
The Web author has used the specification correctly. It's not the author's
problem that some imaginable but rare edge case would make two links hard
*but not impossible* to distinguish.
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Received on Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:39:25 UTC