- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:44:26 -0700
- To: "Jules Graybill" <graybill@starbright.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 09:38 a.m. 07/02/98 -0700, Jules Graybill wrote: >And, more directly applicable to the topic of the list, Matterform Media has >also developed and promoted QBullets -- small graphical icons that represent >the purpose of all of the links on a web page. Used correctly, they allow a >website visitor to distinguish links to, say, a graphic from links to an >html page, a mailto link, etc. without having to (as is the traditional >method) roll over the link and try to decipher the text in the status bar, >or just try the link and see what happens. >http://www.matterform.com/qbullets/ >An interesting approach, I think. Aie, no ALT tags, and no bullet for d-links. A somewhat interesting approach; I'd rather see this as something done in-browser though rather than with a small set of icons which aren't standardized. (In other words, I want to be able to go to Opera's preferences and select 'show link-content symbols', and wow, they appear, with the same graphics on every page displayed by my web browser.) This could be accomplished by using both type= and rel= (valid HTML 4.0, yay!) to indicate the type of link. This has the additional advantage of being more accessible than a graphical solution -- if a browser will support it. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> Vice President, Marketing and Outreach, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Education & Outreach working group member, Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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