- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:22:10 +0930
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: ... > Ideally I'd do both: have an icon (placed via CSS, not inline IMG > element...just create classes for "word", "pdf" etc and assign those to > the A elements) that makes it visually obvious what type of file you're > referring to, ... I have only come across this technique of late, working with MediaWiki[1] (the same software that drives Wikipedia[2]). The technique is used to indicate external links via a CSS class (as per Patrick's suggestion), but providing the link href as text in non-graphical user agents. MediaWiki also uses the technique in the context of "site logo links back to main page", which I particularly like. Rather than starting the page with a link with an inline image as seems to be the current fashion, the link is actually at the end of the page, styled to appear top-left and with the logo image appearing courtesy of CSS. This redundant link does not appear on my version of Lynx - you just get the 'Main Page' link under the navigation heading. As I am using MediaWiki for content management for my SciSalvage[3] project, I am slowly going through looking for accessibility issues; if anyone has any experience of MediaWiki in an accessibility context, I'd be interested in hearing any comments. Cheers M References: 1 - <http://www.mediawiki.org> 2 - <http://www.wikipedia.org> 3 - <http://www.scisalvage.org> -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy, South Australia Work: <http://www.kbc.net.au> Personal: <http://www.mss.cx>
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