- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:26:12 -0700
- To: "R. Dolloff" <averil@concentric.net>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 12:02 a.m. 04/24/98 -0500, R. Dolloff wrote: >Just to clarify anything I've said which may have been misunderstood by >anyone reading posts to these lists, I do NOT support placing little Ds all >over the place, visibly or otherwise, and for many of the same reasons as >Kynn stated. Further, I am not 100% convinced of the necessity for an >attribute called LONGDESC (or whatever it's ultimately called), _as I now >understand its purpose_. In my opinion, the _word_ "D-Link" can be used in >the same place as any other navigation hyperlink, such as "Home," "About >Our Company," etc...and can be used that way NOW. Yeah, I forgot to mention your choice. :) I don't like the word 'D-Link' because, well, it doesn't mean anything. 'Home' has an established, well-known definition within a web site; most people learn this quickly. 'About our company' is self-descriptive. 'D-Link' means nothing. If it said 'Page Description' or something like that, it might make a little more sense. 'D-Link' by itself is poor design because it's not obvious at _all_ what it's supposed to be or how website users should use it. So I like your idea -- but once again, I think the implementation is not a good one, and a poor implementation will lead web authors to simply not use it, and we all suffer from that. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> Governing Board Member, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Education and Outreach working group member, Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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