- From: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:59:33 -0500
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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I like the overall approach especially if it helps us not have to water down the meaningful link text requirement. I hate images of text, but an alternate technique (both would be valid of course) would be to have supplementary text inside the link, in a <span>, with CSS making it invisible visually but still accessible to screen readers. That is similar conceptually to using the "title" attribute to clarify the link, though it might work somewhat better in today's user agents. Anyway, that is three techniques now that can permit the desired "brief" design on graphically contextualized pages while still implementing a requirement for clear link text. So I'll second David's suggestion that this be considered as evidence that the success criterion does not need to be changed and watered down. Michael ________________________________ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David MacDonald Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:05 PM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: technique to overcome meaningful link text This is a proposed technique for how to create meaningful link text for SC 2.4.5. when there is an array of links to multiple versions of the same content. I hope this overcomes the exception for arrays of links. 1) Create images of text that say "HTML", "PDF", "XML" etc. 2) Create links from the images of text to the corresponding documents. 3) Create "alt text" using meaningful descriptions of the corresponding destinations for each of the images. ...Access empowers people ...barriers disable them... www.eramp.com
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