- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:14:59 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
ben.darlow@dyslexic.com wrote: >I can't help but feel that in either case, having the text 'You are >here' at the start will only further cloud matters anyway; won't the >user (especially if using a screenreader) be more likely to interpret >that as meaning 'You are at the home level of the site' ? Even if not, >they are likely to find it ambiguous. > > I'd say that's up for debate. It's true that some users may well find it confusing, but I wouldn't say that this will necessarily be the case for all users. Many users are not as easily confused as we sometimes think... >To add my tuppence to the separator issue; my personal choice has been >to use the right arrow character entity (→) and hide it with an >image (Stuart Langridge's image replacement method), but as with other >character entities this won't work in some earlier browsers. > > That still leaves the question of how this character would be read out by screenreaders (may have to do some testing when I'm back at work, where I have JAWS installed) Patrick H. Lauke
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