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From: Geof Collis
Date: Aug 3, 2009 4:40PM

What is wrong with using the article title as the link?

I have a WordPress site at www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com
that uses the title of the article as the link. Is that what you mean?






At 02:26 PM 8/3/2009, you wrote:
>I guess it's reverse discrimination, but only if you're saying that all
>people need to have access to all things at all times. My site has a
>French translation, but users in the English section can't read the
>French text because they have no reason to (switching between languages
>is done through a link on every page, so they can if they really want to).
>
>Maybe we're talking about different things, though. If I use this method
>-- and I'm really thinking I will -- it won't be to abbreviate links or
>provide more complete descriptions for screen readers. It will be, as
>Donald says, to provide explanation that may not be needed otherwise.
>Right now the table of contents on my site has let's say 25 instances of
>a link with the text PDF. In context, that's fine, but in a list of
>links on a page it's entirely useless. As I understand it, screen
>readers aren't consistent in using the link title vs link text, so I
>make them the same.
>
>I haven't been able to think of a way to give each article's PDF link a
>distinct title without duplicating the text immediately preceding it, so
>until now I've sort of pretended the problem didn't exist. If there's
>another way to handle it (and abbreviating the title text isn't an
>option, since it's grabbed from a database and can be in three
>languages, two of which I'm not fluent in) then I'm willing to hear it,
>but it seems like hiding longer text would be a good option.
>
>Dan Conley
>Information Specialist
>Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and
>Exchange (CIRRIE)
>University at Buffalo, Health Sciences Library B6
>Phone: (716) 829-3900 x145
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>http://cirrie.buffalo.edu
>
>Geof Collis wrote:
> > Ok, the more I think about this the less I understand.
> >
> > If I'm hiding something that only screen readers can see/hear isn't
> > that reverse discrimination because sighted people wont be able to read it?
> >
> >
> > At 09:31 AM 8/3/2009, you wrote:
> >>> Geof Collis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> >>> These ideas sound good in principle but what happens if someone wants
> >>> to print off the page and take it to a presentation where the link
> >>> url is necessary.
> >>>
> >> You shouldn't use URLs as link text to begin with (and none of these
> >> examples do). If you want them to be printable then you can do
> this using a
> >> good print CSS although IEs support for that is somewhat lacking.
> >>