- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 08:55:26 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
To my knowledge, no browser/UA/AT take advantage of the rel="..." attribute or expose it to the user in any meaningful way. So even technique H59 is rather dubious to me. There used to be browsers (probably old versions of Opera) and extensions (I have vague memories of something for Firefox) that surfaced rel="..." for a page, but this seems more like a historical quirk that never quite caught on. In short, unless you somehow use the rel="..." attribute in some way yourself (e.g. if you have extra JS that somehow exposes relationship information like that to the user), I would not bother with those attributes at all. P On 31/01/2020 15:19, Bristow, Alan wrote: > Hello, > > If you have a minute to help me with this I would be grateful and smile. > > I am investigating the accessibility benefit, or lack thereof, of the use of 'rel' 'next' and 'rel' 'prev' in <body>, with <a> tags, as opposed to in <head> with <link> tags. > > E.g.: > ... > </head> > <body> > <a href=”dogs.html rel=”prev”>Dogs</a> > <a href=”cats.html rel=”next”>Cats</a> > </body> > > While H59 (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H59.html) demonstrates the accessibility benefit from using <link> with 'rel' in the <head>, I cannot seem to find any measure of the benefit of implementing these 'rel' values in the <body> with <a>s. > > Does anyone know if it is generally accepted that as far as accessibility goes there is a comparable benefit from these two approaches, or no benefit with the BODY+A when compared to HEAD+LINK, etc? > > Thanks, very much, for any comments. > > Regards, > > Alan > > Alan Bristow > Elections Canada > alan.bristow@elections.ca > [Logo du 100e anniversaire d'Élections Canada / Elections Canada's 100th anniversary logo] <https://www.elections.ca> > -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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