- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:42:56 +0100
- To: "Gregory J Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>, Xtech <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Dude, I agree with the sentiment, with a couple of comments below: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:34:54 +0100, Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> wrote: [snip] > <q cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/C7.html"> > Description > > The objective of this technique is to supplement the link text by adding > additional text that describes the unique function of the link but > styling the additional text so that it is not rendered on the screen by > user agents that support CSS. When information in the surrounding context > is needed to interpret the displayed link text, this technique provides a > complete description of the link unique function while permitting the > less complete text to be displayed. CMN: Or just put the text there for thos of us who don't use a screen reader, but want to understand at a glance what is going on. It isn't like the issue tracker has had thousands of dollars in design and usability work, there is just some navigation. I'd also suggest that sending it, you note the actual problem ("links being read out are not clear - you don't know, from the list of links, what the difference between "open" and "open" is), give a one line reference to each of WCAG 1 and 2 as indicators that this is generally recognised as an accessibility problem, and then suggest the simple bits of a solution. It isn't as educative, but it takes less time to write, and if yu have to repeat yourself on some similar case in a few months, you can use that time to refer back, and point out that they should follow the references if they don't know what they are doing... and if they just forgot, a few short mails is likely to remind them not to forget next time... cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com
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