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RE: Separating links

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From: Leo Smith
Date: Mar 26, 2002 7:18AM

I thought the WAI guidelines were referring to "side-by-side" links,
not links on separate lines in a list. I took "adjacent" to mean side-
by-side in the guideline, and the wording of the guideline seems to
suggest that to me with the "surrounded by spaces" part:
"....include non-link, printable characters
(surrounded by spaces)"

Thus:
link 1 | link 2 | link 3 | link 4

Am I wrong in this assumption?

Leo.

On 24 Mar 2002, at 23:36, Paul Bohman wrote:

> Now you may be wondering what to do about this issue. In a list of
> links, you can place a character such as a vertical bar ( | ) in
> between links. You could also place periods, hyphens, or any other
> character there, but vertical bars are more common. Placing a line
> break ( <br> ) or a new paragraph ( <p> ) does not meet the guideline
> because there are no printable characters in between links that way.



Leo Smith
Web Designer/Developer
USM Office of Publications and Marketing
University of Southern Maine
207-780-4774


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