- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:40:07 -0700
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, Lynn Alford <lynn.alford@jcu.edu.au>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 8:56 AM -0400 8/9/02, Al Gilman wrote: >So if the link text is not standalone, the web fails in this >link-skimming mode and is too tedious for words. P2 grade failure >is incurred -- useless for practical purposes. This is a problem with the screenreader. It shouldn't be doing that. The context of a hypertext link _is_ important. If a screenreader is going to generate a summary, it should -- at the very least -- include a good degree of context around the link, not just the text of the link. The notion that you can take any link out of context and expect it to work well is a bad assumption regarding hypertext. I agree that most pages are tedious and not easy to navigate. However, expecting all links to make sense when read in a list is not a reasonable requirement to place on text authors and it does not solve the problem correctly. A different solution must be found to the tediousness of pages -- at Edapta [*] our solution was to generate navigatable sections of each page with a menu up front and appropriate backlinks, plus page summaries. --Kynn [*] Now long-dead, and bought by Reef, which is now dead too. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Next Book: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 http://cssin24hours.com Kynn on Web Accessibility ->> http://kynn.com/+sitepoint
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