- From: Mike Scott <mscott2@msfw.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:16:54 -0600
- To: "'WAI \(E-mail\)'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
We've talked a few times about the problems of the common "image followed by text" link situation -- in particular, that we may want to allow sighted users to click on either the image or text, but we'd rather avoid making screen reader users hear the same link text repeated twice (the image's alt text followed by the text link). What if we did something like this (HTML code follows): <img src="image.gif" alt="" onclick="document.location='newpage.html';"> <a href="newpage.html">Link Text</a> (i.e., use a javascript "onclick" on the image to load the new page if the image is clicked.) The image alt wouldn't show up in a screen reader's links list, and with alt = null, it wouldn't be read; at the same time, if a sighted user (whose browser supported javascript) clicked on the image, it would act as if it were a link. Without javascript, clicking the image would simply do nothing, but the text link would still work. Of course, this scenario would only apply if the image and the text link were exactly redundant, and when the layout of the page was preventing us from simply putting a single link element around both. Thoughts??? Mike
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