Re: A brief analysis of dynamically generated web pages and

At 09:18 AM 11/25/99 -0800, Scott Luebking wrote:
>Hi, Charles
>
>The problem is that user style sheets do not understand
>concepts / subject material.  The combination of knowledge of subject
>material and of user can significantly affect layout.
>
>For example, results from seach engines often have links for next page
>of search results and previous page of search results.   These links are
>usually at the end of the search results.  However, for a blind user the
>better solution is to have these links at the top of the page so the
>blind user doesn't have to read though the search results.  

And why would anyone want to skip unread search results? The first results are
supposed to be more relevant.

An even
>better solution for blind users is to tie the links to a keys so  that
>the blind user can jump to the next page of results no matter where
>he/she is on the page. 

HTML has several solutions for that. One is the accesskey attribute.
Also the <link rel=next> maybe used for navigating to the next in the 
sequence page. For going back, all browsers have a "previous page" key.

 The user style sheet will not understand the
>purpose of these links.

But HTML can.

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Nir Dagan
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Brown University 
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Received on Thursday, 25 November 1999 12:52:15 UTC