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Re: Accesskeys (again??) (was RE: Physically Challenged Web Page Access)

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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: May 5, 2005 8:36AM

Austin, Darrel wrote:

>>>>>> <link rel="home" href="index.php" title="Home" />
>>>>>> <link rel="bookmark" title="Page Content" href="#content" />
>>>>>> <link rel="bookmark" title="Site Navigation"
>>>>>> href="#navcontainer" />
>
>>
>> Can you explain this a bit more? What is the advantage of
>> using the LINK tag
>> vs. creating an actual set of href tags at the top of your HTML?
>>


Darrel,

*Advantage*? Right now, there is minimal advantage to using this, although
I believe in doing things "right". If/when user agents support relative
links properly it will be a real boon. Think beyond Internet Explorer and
Firefox to PDAs and other handhelds, embedded apps, etc. Providing meta
data such as this in theory can be exploited by these tools to the end user
advantage.

We've written about the relative link at WATS.ca:
http://www.wats.ca/articles/missinglink/49

HTH

JF
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John Foliot <EMAIL REMOVED>
Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca
Web Accessibility Testing and Services
http://www.wats.ca
Phone: 1-613-267-1983 / 1-866-932-4878 (North America)