RE: Links lists, tabbing through links, and user agents (was [#832] Clear link text - priority and acceptability of supplemental text)

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From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Joe Clark
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:13 pm
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Subject: Re: Links lists, tabbing through links, and user agents (was
[#832] Clear link text - priority and acceptability of supplemental
text)



> Joe Clark has asserted [1] that the links list is a "proprietary" 
> feature of the JAWS screen reader, and therefore should not factor 
> into the Working Group's consideration of requirements for link text.

I asserted that exactly one software application that the Working Group 
favours had that feature, so the Working Group wants it imposed 
everywhere. It's grand that other software does it, too-- but it is
absurd 
in the extreme to *force authors to write pages that make sense in the 
authors' intended reading order and when remixed by some machine*.

OK, I'll bite. What would you say is the "intended reading order" of
http://www.cnn.com? What is the "intended reading order" of
http://www.utexas.edu? Or of
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewHigh.asp?dep=17&viewmode=0?
And how does one determine the "intended reading order"?


With this message, I start using my new buzzword in earnest: Why does
the Working Group hate the Web?

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Received on Thursday, 24 June 2004 14:47:13 UTC