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From: Randall Pope
Date: Jun 7, 2010 9:24AM

One of the Braille readers or users, is they don't like (actually hate)
long links names of any kind and multi pages that required multi clicking to
pages get the link.

One idea is to name the file in heading and list the format option as a list
under the heading.

For example:

<h2>AADB Today - June Edition</h2>
<ul>
<li>Plain Text</li>
<li>MS Word</li>
<li>PDF</li>
</ul>

I usually place plain text first on the list, to slightly lessen the search
for most braille readers favorite format, plain text.

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Egan, Bim
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 7:22 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] multiple file formats

Hi Cheryl,

A table is certainly one good way of displaying several different formats
for different files. The table should be marked up with the File Title
column as TH headings though, as well as the top row. The format links could
be headed by a cell with COLSPAN and SCOPE attributes
to avoid repetition. The links themselves could include the format and
file size, which might be important for more complex file formats.

Example data row:

2008 Report and accounts PDF 109KB Word 480KB RTF
5.2MB HTML 20KB

The SUMMARY can be used to let screen readers know what to expect,
especially if it's concise.

Cheers,

Bim


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Cheryl Amato
Sent: 04 June 2010 20:52
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: [WebAIM] multiple file formats

I'm just wondering what's the thinking on presenting the same file in
multiple file formats. In particular, how would you word the link text?
Would a properly coded data table be the best solution? I have several files
that are available in up to 5 different formats each.

Thanks for the help.

--
Cheryl Amato
Web Designer
443-803-3325