- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:17:02 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:09:21AM -0500, david poehlman wrote: > By all users, we are going beyond the realm of user agents, but there are > combinations where links may not be discernable. The only such combinations I can think of are when the author uses CSS to explicity remove the clues that browsers provide to users, an all too common problem that I think is better solved by preventing the information being removed in the first place. Are there any other circumstances where a user agent wouldn't inform the user that there was a link? > I'm not saying that putting the word link in the link text is > necessary but I do caution against allowing the information to be > rendered without some sort of indication coded into it such as for > instance using a | which would at least let people know that there > is a link. How does a pipe character tell the user that a section of text is a link? > You can put it in the link text or use it as a link > separator. Now we are getting into the realms to differentiating between one link and the next, and that is a different problem altogether. > One of the reasons I like things marked up as lists is that they are > automatically rendered with specific textual information in at least > some cases. I don't understand, could you provide an example please? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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