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From: Randall Pope
Date: Aug 20, 2009 10:30AM

I prefer not to use the logo as a function or link to the home page. Many of
the low vision who do not use screen reader often get confused in finding
the home page link while trying to point the cursor in the right place on
the logo. The opinion that I'm hearing is that they wanted a clear written
link to tell them it is the home page not having to guess where the link is.
So I would assume this would be a usability issue as many sighted people
have expressed the same opinion. To address both issues; usability and
accessibility for most people in the audience, I would:

1. Spell out the organization name instead of using the logo in the <h1>
tags.

2. Use the logo as part of the background when styling it in CSS.

Of course others may disagree, I prefer to stick with the audience
preference than the industrial standard of web designing.

With Warm Regards,
Randall "Randy" Pope
American Association of the Deaf-Blind
Website: http://www.aadb.org

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