- From: rcn <rcn@fenix2.dol-esa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:40:12 -0500
- To: "W3c-Wai-Ig@W3.Org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Agree, link the whole word -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Poehlman Sent: Sunday, October 25, 1998 12:42 PM To: Kathy Seven Williams Cc: Charles F. Munat; kg9ae@geocities.com; Liam Quinn; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Two new sites on point 1, if you put the links at the top, give us a link skipping option.On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Kathy Seven Williams wrote: _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/ _ -- Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s touching the internet voice: 1-(301) 949-7599 poehlman@clark.net ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman Dynamic solutions Inc. Best of service for your Small Business network Needs Http://www.dnsolutions.com
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