Web page titles

>Can someone tell me, if I have a number of pages on my site and I 
>name them all for example
>
>Company - Section1 - Page Name 1
>Company - Section1 - Page Name 2
>Company - Section2 - Page Name 3
>
>Is that really annoying for those with speech browsers

Screen readers, you mean? (Yes, IBM Home Page Reader could be 
described as a speech browser, but "speech browser" is one of those 
dead-giveaway terms.)

>as it says everything all the time, or is it quite useful as it 
>tells you exactly where you are?

Put the most specific information first: Page1, Section1, Company. 
Among other things, Windows users will see Page1 in a reduced view in 
the Taskbar. Some browsers (IE5 on Macintosh among them) truncate 
window titles. This is one of those rare cases when I agree with 
Jakob Nielsen: <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9611.html>.
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   Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org | <http://joeclark.org/access/>
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Received on Tuesday, 18 December 2001 14:21:15 UTC