- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:03:39 -0500
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: User Agent Guidelines Emailing List <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
aloha, ian! first, since this is actually a response to your announcement that the 21 November Techniques document is available, i'd like to echo mark novak's compliments -- you have done an excellent job restructuring the Techniques document... second, i'd like to re-raise an issue that would make the techniques documents a hell of a lot more usable... why do all of the links that refer to specific attributes and elements defined in W3C recommendations lead only to a top-level link, located in the References section of the document, for the relevant recommendation? case in point -- under the Accessibility Topic "Link Techniques", located at (long URI warning) http://www.w3.org/wai/ua/wai-useragent-techs-19991121#link-techniques appears the following technique: quote Use :before from [CSS2] to clearly indicate that something is a link (e.g., 'A:before { content : "LINK:" }') unquote the bracketed term quote CSS2 unquote is a hyperlink that leads not to the CSS2 description of the :before and :after pseudo-elements, as anyone reading the document for the first time might reasonably expect, but, leads instead to a link in the References section of the Techniques document, which points to the top-level URI for the CSS2 recommendation... would it not be more logical and informative (not to mention more user-friendly) if the hyperlink pointed users to the pertinent portion of the CSS2 rec, which in this case would be: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/generate.html#x2 rather than leave the reader to fend for his or her self once he or she is dumped unceremoniously at the top level URI for the relevant rec? i know that this would entail a considerable effort, and so i volunteer my services to assist in any such transformation, gregory. -------------------------------------------------------- He that lives on Hope, dies farting -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> --------------------------------------------------------
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