Re: Linking to non HTML Resources (PDF) (Word doc) etc.

Thanks for the opinions on this linking question. Summarizing comments, it
seems like format and file extension offers the most descriptive
explanation of the link.


Would anyone change the following example of link references?



Examples:

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list Word document (.docx) </a>

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) </a>

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list PowerPoint slides (.pptx) </a>

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list Access database (.mdb) </a>

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list (pdf) </a>

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list (rtf) </a>

<a href="...">Minnesota lake list (epub) </a>




On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:28 PM Charles 'chaals' (McCathie) Nevile <
chaals@yandex.ru> wrote:

> You need to use labels that people understand. (Clear and simple language
> is an accessibility requirement in itself - as recognised way back when
> we
> made WCAG 1.0).
>
> PDF is often known by that name or as a PDF document. Word documents and
> Excel Spreadsheets are usually given the two word descriptions - but
> "powerpoint" is used as a generic name IMHO - people refer to my HTML
> slides as powerpoints. Although I suspect the trademark lawyers at
> Microsoft would disagree.
>
> In each case there is a wide variety of software that can work with the
> format, and for most users they are set up to handle them by default, so
> it isn't that complicated. (Servers are more often poorly configured, so
> it's inconvenient, but that's a different question).
>
> So I would have something like
>
>    you could always find teh real data in the <a href="...">Excel
> Spreadsheet of County Cowards</a> or read the excellent <a
> href="...">summary report (PDF)</a> ...
>
> cheers
>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 01:43:37 +0100, Andrea Douglas <dougl361@umn.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I’m looking for guidance on linking to non-HTML resources in web pages,
> > for example, pdfs, Word docs, Excel docs. Specifically, >is it better
> to
> > link to the format name (Word) or (Word doc) or (doc) or (docx) ?
> > It seems the link text for (pdf) is straightforward as it describes
> > the_format_AND the file_extension_. However, other common >links (Word,
> > Excel, PowerPoint) the format (Word for example) is different from the
> > file extension ( doc or docx for example).
> >
> > Feedback and thoughts are appreciated.
> >
> > For example:County Resource (pdf)
> > County Resource (doc)
> >
> >
>
>
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