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Re: Navigation lists and headers - best practise?

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Aug 23, 2007 7:30AM

<EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

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.

Mike's response:

The navigation list element <nl></nl> is a part of the xhtml 2.0
specification, which I believe is still a draft document. As far as I
know browser and screen reader support for this docType is virtually non
existent. I found X-Smiles but it only offered partial support for <nl>
http://www.x-smiles.org/features_xhtml2.html. I would recommend
continuing to mark up navigation lists using semantic xhtml 1.0/html
4.01 list markup and use heading elements appropriately.

Mike