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RE: Printable character between adjacent links

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From: Prof Norm Coombs
Date: May 16, 2002 6:35AM

As a blind user of the Internet,
I hate hate hate those characters between links that WAI thinks is so nice.

At 11:31 AM 5/15/02 +0300, you wrote:
>philip steven lanier wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>Yes, that's one possibility I had in my mind. Sorry for not making it clear
>that borders and margins were just _examples_ of the visual presentation
>features that could be used. Yet another possibility - for images that
>essentially contain text - would be to use alternating background colors
>that are sufficiently different.
>
>The basic problem to avoid is having a row of links like
> foo bar zap blurp more foo more bar and so on
>in image format, with no obvious (and I mean _obvious_ to virtually anyone
>who sees it) indication of where each link ends or even how many links there
>are. A useful rule of thumb: the user should be able to recognize them as
>separate links without knowing the topic or even the language used. It
>happens too often that people rely on orthography like capital letters or
>even recognizing _phrases_, or other "higher level protocol" issues.
>
>--
>Jukka Korpela
>TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehitt