- From: Nir Dagan <nir.dagan@econ.upf.es>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:23:00 GMT
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I would like to suggest a (partial) solution to the top vs. bottom navigation links debate: For a large site that has many links, often the site has a table where the first (left) cell is a navigation "side-bar" and the second (right) cell is the flow of text. in this case, when linking to other pages, link to a named anchor in the begining of the flow of text in the second cell. For the sighted it is the same. The named anchor is in the first line of the page. In a browser that linearizes tables you skip the links. In addition add "redundent" links as a paragraph in the bottom, for the benefit of non-sighted who skipped the first cell and for all of those (sightted or not) who read the page through and scrolled down to the bottom. This is a partial solution since speech machines that read line by line of a screen don't like tables like this in the first place. However if the web author insists on this table for layout, it seems a reasonable linking scheme, I think. Regards, Nir Dagan Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) email: dagan@upf.es Website: http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/
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