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RE: Printable character between adjacent links

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From: philip steven lanier
Date: May 15, 2002 12:58AM

Jukka Korpela wrote:
>This is an interesting question. I had though that it would suffice to
>use separator characters in the ALT texts...but now I realize I was
>probably wrong. In particular, a user who uses a graphic browser and has
>cognitive problems may find it difficult to separate the images from
>another, and the alt texts wouldn't help then.

Adjacent image-based links can unambiguously be made visually distinct
from each other. Consider a row of circular "button" graphics with text
or icons in them.

Philip Lanier,
University of Washington


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