Re: Limit on the links in a page

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:19:06 +0200, <accessys@smart.net> wrote:

>
> a 21 page document
> with 5 pages of links and
> 21 pages of foot notes.
>
> some of my college proffesors would have been impressed
> but I think there has to be a better way.

Often there is a better way. But (as Harry Loots' recent question about  
keyboard access shows) also many people can't, or won't, figure out that  
better way. There are some cases where that is because it is a really  
complex problem - but a lot more where it is a simple, known issue.

> very confusing though trying to read it.

Hence "understandable" as a principle of WCAG...


> interesting article once I figured out how to read it, but
>
> couldn't there have been a tree structure.
> (footnotes)
> (links) then click thru to the items ???

Possibly. Are you volunteering to do the work that makes it happen?

cheers

Chaals

> Bob
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 18:07:32 +0100
>> From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
>> To: W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>> Subject: Re: Limit on the links in a page
>> Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:08:46 +0000
>> Resent-From: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>>  On 9 August 2012 15:06,  <accessys@smart.net> wrote:
>>
>>> my mind boggles at why so many links.
>>
>> Tables of data; indices, references/ citations, lists, whole-year
>> calendars, etc.
>>
>> For example, there are around 170 in the 'Notes' section of today's
>> "featured article" on the English-language Wikipedia:
>>
>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Ganga_Dynasty#Notes
>>
>> and far more than 200 in the whole article.
>>
>> --
>> Andy Mabbett
>> @pigsonthewing
>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>>
>


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Chaals - standards declaimer

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