- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:16:32 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Helle Bjarnø <hbj@visinfo.dk>
- cc: "W3c-Wai-Eo (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
What about having the links to the pages, and then saying a bit inn text about what can be found on those pages (i.e make the links not be links anymore? (A better solution would be if it were possible to skip a particular group of links...) cheers Charles On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Helle Bjarnø wrote: I showed the different drafts to the blind persons I normally work with in matters of accessibility to the web, both really experts in the area. Their comments were: to many links and text on the page, they would prefer if there only were links to the underlying pages: News, Resources, Participation, About WAI, Search with just a short explanation about each of this pages telling what kind of information you will find there. I think William was in favor of this kind of page on our meeting last Friday. personally I also prefer pages with fewer links. The latest draft has more than 60 links and it's very difficult to keep track of what you're looking for and even harder if you have to keep track with a screen-reader and speech or Braille display. I think the present WAI home page has 57 links. It would be very good if we could reduce the number of links to e.g. 25. I once read in a book on user friendly web design that a page should not have more than 10 links ( this may be outdated) but I still think it's a good design rule. Kind regards Helle Bjarno Visual Impairment Knowledge Centre e-mail: hbj@visinfo.dk phone: +45 39 46 01 04, fax: +45 30 61 94 14 mail: Rymarksvej 1, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark. -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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