- From: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:45:48 -0400
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
A subgroup of the Guidelines Working Group is reviewing techniques to make HTML pages accessible, associated with work on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. In a recent meeting we discussed several suggestions for hyperlinks in HTML pages. We determined that we need more information about how people with screen readers use links before we solidify some of the proposed techniques. I would like to solicit descriptions from users of screen readers or other assistive technologies how you use hyperlinks when browsing Web pages. Please describe whatever seems relevant, but to help focus your thoughts there are some starter questions below. Feel free to respond on or off the list as you prefer. Questions: Do you use a links list dialog to use links without reading the rest of the page content? If so, how often and in what circumstances? Do you tab among the links on a page? If you encounter ambiguous links, is it easy to explore the surrounding context to clarify the link? When you read a page and encounter links, what characteristics of the link or page affect how you use links? Do the links provide you with information or do they serve a purely navigational function? If they provide information, what kind? In what circumstances do you seek to use links in this way? What characteristics of links are particularly helpful or problematic for you as you use them? For example, the content of the link text, supplementary title attributes, links with common stock text like "click here" or "read more", links without any link text, multiple links sharing the same link text, etc. Are links most useful when grouped into navigation bars, or when embedded into the text flow? Thank you for your help - Michael Michael Cooper Accessibility Project Manager Watchfire 1 Hines Rd Kanata, ON K2K 3C7 Canada +1 613 599 3888 x4019 http://bobby.watchfire.com/
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