- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:43:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Cc: WAI WCAG List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Where there is a book-like structure - i.e. there is a clearly identified next page or previous page, where there is a glossary or table of contents, I would suggest that the page fails checkpoint 13.2 if it doesn't have link elements of the appropriate type, no? Cheers Chaals On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Michael Cooper wrote: > >In general I would say book-like structures are the most useful use of this. >But in principle I would say it could be useful for all pages (except the >homepage) to have a link rel="Start" pointing to the homepage. And in non >book-like structures like newspaper articles split among a few URIs, "Next" >and "Prev" could be useful. I don't know as I'd go so far as to _require_ it >but I think it's a good suggestion. Michael > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Ridpath [mailto:chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:23 PM >> To: WAI WCAG List >> Subject: [techs] 2.4 The link element and navigation tools >> >> >> >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#link_structure >> >> When should you use the link element (in the head section) to describe >> document navigation? >> >> Is this only necessary when the document already contains a >> formal structure >> like previous/next chapters in a book? >> >> Chris >> > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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