RE: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace

Before I read this reply I was going to post a message saying we're
considering changing Bobby's evaluation to consider links on different lines
(e.g., separated by <br>) as being sufficiently separated. I'm with everyone
on the importance of separated links, and just have the question - are
non-whitespace separators just important for links on the same "line" or is
it also important for links on different lines? I realize the definition of
"line" might depend on the user agent and there might be my answer, that you
can't count on a <br> element as creating the needed separation. But I
wanted to float the idea and see what people think.

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Foliot - bytown internet [mailto:foliot@bytowninternet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:18 AM
> To: Steve Vosloo
> Cc: W3c-Wai-Ig
> Subject: RE: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace
> 
> 
> 
> JAWS says the word link, IBM HPR just changes the "voice" to 
> indicate that
> the text is "different" (i.e.- Hyperlink).
> 
> While I detest Bobby worship if you are going for strict 
> compliance you need
> to separate the links with more than white space.  I usually 
> use the "bar"
> (|), and often even style it "away" using CSS. (or mark up 
> your LIST of
> links using list markup (<UL><LI>) and again style away the bullets,
> indentation, etc. using CSS)
> 
> The point is that there is in fact a distinct separation between the
> hyperlinks.  This is useful for users with mobility 
> impairments as well,
> including but not limited to Parkinson's, Arthritis, 
> quadriplegics, etc.  In
> fact, even younger children lack fine motor skills, although with them
> getting younger and younger at the computer screen/mouse/keyboard the
> thresh-hold age keeps getting smaller and smaller...
> 
> HTH
> 
> JF
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On
> > Behalf Of Steve Vosloo
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:06 AM
> > To: WAI IG
> > Subject: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a list of links which I'm placing on top of each other and
> > separating with an HTML break statement, like the list of 
> links at the
> > bottom of the Tesco Access site. Bobby squeals with WAI 
> checkpoint 10.5:
> > Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace. Is this 
> an outdated
> > checkpoint? My experience is that screen readers say the word "link"
> > before reading a link.
> >
> > All input greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:52:01 UTC