RE: [html-techs] New HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 *rough* draft

About those title attributes that say title="Link to page x":

The phrase "Link to" adds unnecessary auditory clutter (screen readers
and talking browsers signal the presence of links) and thwarts an
important navigation aid for people who use the links-list features of
tools like JAWS and HPR.  Links lists can be navigated alphabetically--
press the letter "N," for example, and you jump to the next item in the
links-list that begins with that letter.  This allows users to work more
quickly, especially on sites that they're familiar with.  If all the
link text starts with the same letter, that ability is lost.

(The title attribute will show up in the links list for JAWS, for
example).

John

John Slatin, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Technology & Learning
University of Texas at Austin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] 
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:20 am
To: 'Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG'; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; 'Wendy A Chisholm'
Subject: RE: [html-techs] New HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 *rough* draft



This is just a thought...

The GEO group decided to use only XHTML for its examples, to encourage
people to move to standards based authoring. If you feel this is a good
idea you should use lower case element names below.

Cheers,
RI

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W3C

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org
> [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Roberto Scano 
> - IWA/HWG
> Sent: 12 July 2003 13:08
> To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Wendy A Chisholm
> Subject: Re: [html-techs] New HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 
> *rough* draft
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>
> To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:17 AM
> Subject: [html-techs] New HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 *rough* draft
> 
> 
> > 4. Notice the many "@@" that indicate lack of content (usually a
> > missing example or description of an example).
> 
> I've done a little and simple example for the layout table:
> 
> 
> <TABLE summary="This table is used for visual layout, and contains two
> coloumns: first coloumn contains links to main areas within
> our site, second coloumn is main page content.">
>      <TR>
>           <TD>
>          <A HREF="page1.htm" title="Link to page 1">Page 1</A><BR>
>          <A HREF="page3.htm" title="Link to page 2">Page 2</A><BR>
>          <A HREF="page4.htm" title="Link to page 3">Page 3</A><BR>
>          <A HREF="page5.htm" title="Link to page 4">Page 4</A><BR>
>          <A HREF="page6.htm" title="Link to page 5">Page 5</A><BR>
>          </TD>
>           <TD>Welcome to the Web Site of our Company!<BR></TD>
>      <TR>
> </TABLE>
> 
> This could be an example for a simply layout table with a two
> coloumns table. I think that other examples could be added 
> with more complicated table but this is a little example that 
> make it readable also from people that are no so-expert.
> 
> Roberto Scano
> IWA/HWG EMEA Coordinator
> W3C Advisory Committee Representative for IWA/HWG International 
> Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild http://www.iwanet.org - 
> http://www.hwg.org
> E-Mail:
> emea@iwanet.org - w3c-rep@iwanet.org
> 
>

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