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Adjacent Links - 1/18/2007 23:34:24
I don't often use adjacent links (links are usually in a list), but Cynthia just caught me out on an updated page. In this case it was only two links and easy enough to solve by using a chevron:
>Top of Page > Some Other Page
It did make me wonder though about how annoying this would be to someone listening to a web page. Would anyone know what separator is actually preferred by people using a screen reader? Or is this just a personal taste thing?
I used to use a | with display none, but then found out that some readers won't read anything with a display none (fair enough), so doing that really only kept Cynthia happy and was pointless.
I've also used brackets:
[Top of page] [You might like this page] [And this too]
but figure two separators would be more annoying to listen to than one.
I actually like the look of the chevron best for those times you 'suggest' a link on a page, but would probably not like to hear "chevron Link chevron Link".
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/19/2007 13:14:57
use the > as an image??
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/19/2007 14:40:04
"That's what I meant by bullet." oops sorry jaybee - hard to read properly with a little git bouncing around on your knees!
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/19/2007 16:04:58
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ORIGINAL: rubyaimPlease also read the Widget Manufacturing information. Widget Rotation may also be of interest.
Back to top
That would work too but it's about the same amount of characters as a simple list:
<ul>
<li><a href="widgets.html">Widget manufacturing</a></li>
<li><a href="rotation.html">Widget Rotation</a></li>
<li class="btt"><a href="#top">Back to top</a></li>
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/19/2007 16:21:31
Yes that's my point - you can use the simple list just as is and style it however you like. You don't need to add any more markup - just a few CSS rules - which you'd probably add to style the paragraph anyway.
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/19/2007 16:30:56
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just a few CSS rules
and the image. Paragraph and links already styled.
I'm still not convinced it's worth it for 5 pages in 1500 ?
Edit: I would do that if it was going to be used on the majority of pages.
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/19/2007 17:09:27
There's nothing wrong with the paragraph solution - it's just a different way of doing the thing. There's still not much difference even with a teeny tiny bullet image if you want to do it the list way.
The incorrect way would be to have just links in a row - as long as you're not doing that it's just a question of preference.
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/22/2007 12:42:28
seems weird that the screen readers can't detect the start and end of the anchor tag and use that to announce a link ;) - i wish that there was a firefox screen reader for free/open source reader (or is there??) thank god MS don't make one though from the small bit i know they could probably do as good a job :)
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/22/2007 15:30:06
the last version of opera (9.1) was really buggy for me so i uninstalled it (though it works fine on linux) ;) i'll try it again as a matter of interest.
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RE: Adjacent Links - 1/22/2007 16:25:59
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seems weird that the screen readers can't detect the start and end of the anchor tag and use that to announce a link ;)
I'd like to seem them all do that. I have a great deal of admiration for screen reader developers but get very frustrated at times that something like this is not standard.
In my ongoing search for a screen reader comparison (not found yet), I came across this article:
What should a screen reader do?
I found it and the comments quite interesting.
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