- From: Y.P. Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:48:27 +0200
- To: "'WCAG List'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I think using the title attribute of the UL for a description of the group of links is a great idea. At the moment some designers including me use the UL technique for grouping links with a heading before it to give the list a 'title': <h2 class="navigation">Main navigation</h2> <ul> <li>Subject 1</li> <li>Subject 2</li> </ul> I make the heading invisible using display:none in CSS. As pointed out yesterday during the tech meeting, this is not a preferred way of doing things since assistive technology may honor display:none in future versions which would then once again make the description unavailable. Also, I'm actually creating a fake title for the list which could be achieved more elegantly by using the title attribute for the list. Another advantage of using the title-attribute of UL is that it can be used to describe the hierarchy of links in the navigation by giving subsequent UL's their own titles if necessary. I think Roberto's addition makes using unordered lists a very useful way to group links. Yvette Hoitink > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Roberto Scano > - IWA/HWG > Sent: woensdag 6 augustus 2003 21:54 > To: Y.P. Hoitink; 'WCAG List' > Subject: Re: Links from Yvette > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Y.P. Hoitink" <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl> > To: "'Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG'" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>; > "'WCAG List'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:44 PM > Subject: RE: Links from Yvette > > Another example of using <UL> to group links is this link: http://ua.dnr.state.wi.us that was also posted during the discussion (sorry, don't remember who brought this one up). This example includes the box-hover effect that many designers like. Roberto Scano: I think that the use of <li> could be good for accessibility, due that with the correct use of CSS the <li> can be modified and adapted to the website layout. Why also, for more accessibility, not use the "title" attribute for the UL [1]? [snip example] the assistive tecnology could read the title and (i think this is not implemented but could be done) skip all the <li> if the title of <ul> is not of interest of the user. What the group think about this? Roberto Scano [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.2
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