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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Jan 30, 2011 11:30PM

Hi Adam,
I would Suggest you to go with First Method you Mentioned.
Irrespective of the number of pages you have, this method is popular now a
days, and accessible too.
And the numbered links can be accessible Via Link List for Screen Reader
users, and
You need to take Care of two things to implement this More Accessible.
1 Provide Enough clickable Area.
2 Provide Previous and Next Buttons(image buttons) so that Screen Reader
user can directly Access the Buttons and numbered list Between them as well.
Thanks and Regards,
Jeevan.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM, adam solomon
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> What is the best way to implement a simple yet accessible paging. The two
> standard ways I see all over the place are:
> 1. set of numbers, each one a link to that particular numbered page, with
> arrow links to navigate to different sets of pages.
> 2. dropdownlist with all the pages, and a button next to it - choose the
> page number and press go.
>
> I personally prefer the second option - simple and to the point, and easier
> to markp up correctly. Yet, I am worried about a situation where there are
> many pages (500) and a keyboard user would have to navigate all the way
> down
> with arrow keys. The truth is that this is a problem even in the numbering
> paging - the user would have to suffer a number of postbacks before getting
> to the correct set of pages.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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> adam solomon
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