- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:25:12 +0100
- To: "Charles (Chuck) Oppermann" <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
[this is a thread for GL, not IG, so I'm moving it here. This message is on both but please next reply only on GL] Chuck Opperman wrote: > Why create more markup (=work) for the authors just to separate the links? This is another Interim guideline, only Recommended. (one that I usually don't apply in the documents I authored) > -----Original Message----- > From: nir dagan [mailto:dagan@upf.es] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 11:42 AM > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: Re: Link separators > > > > In regard to separating graphic-links. > What I do as an author is the following: > > Separate icon-links with a 1 pixel transparent gif with the alt text of * > or some other separating character. Height and width being specified. > > (see e.g. http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/about.html ) > > This should work fine in browsers that implement ALT text correctly. > (e.g. Lynx). > > In graphical browsers it looks almost like not separating the links.(e.g. > Netscape 3 or 4). For both cases of images on or off. > (I have no clue what a screen reader does here) > > However it seems that graphical browsers do not implement ALT text > correctly. They either don't show it, cut it short if it doesn't > fit the box, or show it as a tooltip only when one points the mouse to > the box of the graphic. > > In my view: > > 1. separating text-links is important from the point of view of usability > of sighted users, therefore separating icon-links is a good idea, > even without considering accessibility. (sighted users don't get the images > if they don't want them, and then they should get separated text links.) > > 2. Guidelines of authoring should be based primerly on what the specs say. > This is the only way to coordinate actions of authors and browser vendors. > (this is most relevant for ALT and title attributes). > > Nir Dagan. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I received an inquiry recently that I am unclear of the answer to, and I > thought someone on this list might know. If you have multiple graphics in > a > row that also happen to be links, does the link separation rule still > apply? > > > > Any input appreciated. > > > > David Clark > > CAST, Inc. > > > > > > >
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