- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:55:48 -0600
- To: Ginger Claassen <ginger.claassen@gmx.de>
- CC: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > as a thought... > > If you used a small visible icon to mark external links, and put alt > text on them - then everyone, sighted or not, using a screen reader or > not, colorblind or not, would know that these links are external. It > would also be more obvious to people than color coding where people > might not make the connection or notice the difference in color even if > not colorblind. For an example, see http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/resources.html The alt="links off WAI website" There is also a key: "[img alt="links off WAI website"] icon indicates links that leave the WAI website." ~Shawn ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) e-mail: shawn@w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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