- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:27:29 +0100
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> From: Kynn Bartlett [SMTP:kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com] > > > Click is slang for "follow this link" in the same way that "web > surfer" is slang for "user of the world wide web." > [DJW:] It's origins, though, was to give concrete instructions to users of mice rather than using something more abstract, like "activate". Now, non-mouse users need to do two translations: click to the abstract concept and then that concept to the concrete one for their user interface. People who still need to be told to click mice would be the people who would have difficulty making these translations.
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