- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:48:27 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> ...why are we meant to make sure there is a non-linked character between adjacent links? I don't think it is necessary any more. All the browsers I know, even on the old platforms like DOS, seem to handle consecutive links by tabbing to each link. 5 years or 10 years ago that was argued to not be the case. That's why it is priority 3 and in Guideline 10 "Use Interim Solutions": The priority 3 checkpoint 10.5 says: 10.5 Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links. [Priority 3] Guideline 10 Use interim accessibility solutions so that assistive technologies and older browsers will operate correctly. For example, <clip> older screen readers read lists of consecutive links as one link. These active elements are therefore difficult or impossible to access. <clip> Note. The following checkpoints apply until user agents (including assistive technologies) address these issues. These checkpoints are classified as "interim", meaning that the Web Content Guidelines Working Group considers them to be valid and necessary to Web accessibility as of the publication of this document. [over two years ago May 1999] However, the Working Group does not expect these checkpoints to be necessary in the future, once Web technologies have incorporated anticipated features or capabilities. read more at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-interim-accessibility Regards, Phill
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