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RE: Printable character between adjacent links

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From: Frank Gaine
Date: May 16, 2002 7:18AM

Group,

It seems that the reason for advising in favour of inserting a non-
link printable character is not so much to advance the visual distinction
of links.

Apparently, if there is no text or image separating two adjacent
links, some screen readers will incorrectly read adjacent links as
a single link. However, Bobby seems to suggest that this only applies
to hypertext links (see http://bobby.cast.org/bobby/html/en/gls/g35.
html)

Is this correct? Are adjacent image-based links alright?

Regards
Frank





At Thursday, 16 May 2002, "Cohen, Lisa A." <LCOHEN2@northropgrumman.
com> wrote:

>Prof Coombs,
>
>Can you explain why you hate the characters so much?
>
>Lisa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Prof Norm Coombs [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:57 AM
>To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
>
>As a blind user of the Internet,
>I hate hate hate those characters between links that WAI thinks
is so nice.
>
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