- From: Jan Eric Hellbusch <hellbusch@2bweb.de>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:50:45 +0200
- To: "'Vivienne CONWAY'" <v.conway@ecu.edu.au>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Vivienne, > http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/F63 > > This failure deals with the context needed to understand the purpose of a link. It > states that the text in question needs to be in the same 'sentence, paragraph, list > item, or table cell as the link". I'm seeing a lot of people putting it in a <div> > element rather than the above items. Would you consider that to be a failure? The short answer is "yes" and the long answer is "it depends". The failure is clear and DIV is not one of the allowed parameters. In practical terms there are situations where DIV works fine, being tested with JAWS or NVDA. Other/older screenreaders could do something different with blocks of text in a DIV separated by BR. There are other situations where several blocks of text are presented visually only by CSS, i.e. <div><span>first block</span><span>second block</span></div>. That often does not work with screenreaders, which may treat the entire content as one paragraph. Thus, it can get difficult for screenreaders to discover the context of a link. So, in doubt, DIV ist not OK. In most situations like the above links are part of a sentence, so there are other means for screenreader users to discover the context, and using DIV does not invoke a failure. Regards, Jan -- Jan Eric Hellbusch Tel.: +49 (231) 86436760 oder +49 (163) 3369925 Web: http://2bweb.de Twitter: www.twitter.com/2bweb -- Das Buch über barrierefreies Webdesign: "Barrierefreiheit verstehen und umsetzen - Webstandards für ein zugängliches und nutzbares Internet" 812 Seiten, Dpunkt Verlag (2011) http://www.barrierefreies-webdesign.de/dpunkt/
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