- From: Kathy Seven Williams <kseven@utah-inter.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:27:06 -0700
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <coder@acnet.net>, <kg9ae@geocities.com>
- Cc: "Liam Quinn" <liam@htmlhelp.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I find it interesting that so much attention is being given to spacers when the site reads so strangely. Because of the two columns, the links to the left and the main text tothe right, as you read through the descriptive text, the words for linking are tossed into the mix as they are reached in the line by line reading of the WinVsion Screen reader. To add to the confusion, they seem to have one letter somehow highlighted or underlined to form the link key so that they are read I nformation then on with the descriptive text. Believe me this is more distracting than whatever may or may not happen with spacing images if the user happens to have images off which BTW I never do as I like to get what I can from what there is to see with my low vision. POINT 1 put the links at the top or bottom so they don't interfer with the reading of the main page text. POINT 2 There are far more people with low vision who like to see what they can, but still need text help to identify graphics than there are totally blind who don't care that they have to view a page without graphics. I am notpleased having to be forced to pretend I am totally blind in order to get any information about graphics., What ever happened to the picture caption from the printed page days? "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." Helen Keller K7 (Kathy Seven Williams) kseven@utah-inter.net http://home.utah-inter.net/kseven/
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