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From: Mary Martinson Grossnickle
Date: Sep 22, 2004 2:13PM

>I also maintain that if you just have "Read more", with NOTHING else,
>you're not violating some cardinal sin.
>
>Web pages are NOT meant to be read as a list of links.

True, but in virtually every usability test I've done with people using
screen readers, the way they use the web is to first tab through all the
links on the page. The other common strategy is if the page has a lot of
links (and everyone's definition of "a lot" obviously varies), the immediate
reaction is to bring up the links list. So for both strategies, tabbing
through the links and bringing up the links list, the web page *is* read as
a list of links. I like many of the suggestions posted to this list as an
alternative to simply saying "Read more."
Mary