- From: Alan J. Flavell <flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:38:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I have a distinct recollection of having seen a recommendation to always separate anchor links by at least one non-whitespace character. This was probably in an earlier guideline document, maybe at CAST or WGBH. Wherever it was, I found it eminently plausible, and it convinced me at that time to redesign my navigation "bar" (actually a row of button images). I decided to separate the buttons by 1-pixel transparent gifs that have their ALT text set to " | " (space, vertical bar, space), so that they're practically invisible on a graphical browser, but show up clearly, between the anchor links, on a text-mode browser. The issue came up again today, and it occurred to me to look for some advice on this point in the WAI guidelines. But I didn't seem to find anything specific. Any comments, please?
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