Re: top or bottom navigation links

Nir solution is, using tables, what I recommend people do using frames: 
Have a side (or top or bottom) frame of navigation links, use proper 
NOFRAMES to allow people in to the body of the site, and include a 
redundant set of navigation links at the bottom of each content page for 
those not using frames-enabled browsing.

Charles McCathieNevile

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Nir Dagan wrote:

> 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/
> 
>

Received on Saturday, 18 July 1998 23:26:15 UTC