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Re: SPAM?:Re: evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0

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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Apr 7, 2011 8:09AM

I respectfully disagree with Jason and John and agree with Andrew. The standard is open to interpretation in this case. I reread understanding 1.3.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/content-structure-separation-programmatic.html and noted that the idea is to preserve semantic meaning that is presented through visual or auditory formatting. In this case we have a row of links separated by pipe characters. Is that really a visual presentation of a list? If you were to show the page to several people who are not web developers or accessibility folks and asked them to point out lists on the page, how many of them would point to that group of links?

If I were conducting the evaluation, I would make a note in the report that best practice would be to place the links in a list and include the benefits of placing them in the list. The recipients of the report should be made aware that this item falls into a gray area within the guidelines and that it is their call as to whether or not to make the change.

Mike Moore
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