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Re: Navigation lists and headers - best practise?

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From: smithj7
Date: Aug 22, 2007 6:10PM

I've been using header levels for my navigation ever since I went to the
Assistive Technology conference in Orlando, FL. The speech users said
it was a definate improvement from a whole much of link lists on a
website. It broke up the link lists on front pages in a similar way
that a sited person might have. However, I was wondering if anyone uses
the navigation list for xhtml? I only learned about it recently and
don't want to change everything if it is not good standards.

Example code follows:

<nl>
<label>Contents </label>
<li href="#introduction">Introduction</li>
<li>
<nl>
<label>Terms</label>
<li href="#may">May</li>
<li href="#must">Must</li>
<li href="#should">Should</li>
</nl>
</li>
<li href="#conformance">Conformance</li>
<li href="#references">References</li>
...
</nl>