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Re: Best way to set up links to documents

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Oct 6, 2008 7:30AM

Keith and Cliff

We use icons with alt text to display links to all of the forms in our
forms catalog. This is still cumbersome though. The full catalog
displays over 400 forms which means 1200 total links in a links list
(Word, PDF, and Instructions for each form). We have smaller lists by
agency division as well, but the lists are still very long.

We also have a search feature to aid in discovering the form. We have
not received any negative feedback from users about the need to add the
word download to the icon link. It seems intuitive enough for the users
since the pages are part of a forms catalog.

The title attribute is not a reliable way to convey the information.
Even when configured to read the title screen readers (JAWS versions) do
not always read the title on links, form fields, or images.

I like some of the other proposed methods such as creating separate
lists with only one format available per list.

Mike Moore