Re: Accessibility impact of A with REL PREV / NEXT (in BODY) versus LINK with REL PREV / NEXT (in HEAD)

On 05/02/2020 08:55, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> 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.

For what it's worth, I've proposed that the technique should be retired...

https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/1036

P
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Received on Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:41:11 UTC