- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:04:05 -0700
- To: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 7:28 PM +0100 7/18/00, Dave J Woolley wrote: > I didn't spot the "click for details", but that should not be > necessary, and you should never say "click". It's an > inappropriate fix for removing the underline from the link, > thus hiding the fact that it is a link. "Click" should be considered, in my opinion, common usage -- or "slang" if you will -- for "select a link". I think that trying to get the masses of millions of Internet users to stop saying "click on a link" is far harder than getting the small percentage of people who can't literally "click" on a link to mentally convert "click" to the appropriate term for their device. I think that too much emphasis on telling people to never use "click" for accessibility's sake is missing the boat. --Kynn PS: About underlines -- they were never the best way to indicate a link, to begin with. People who have to have links underlined should use the appropriate local CSS. -- -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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