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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 7, 2011 12:45PM

Thanks for your thoughts everyone in this thread.

Angela French

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From: John Hicks [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0

I agree with Jason; this clearly this is a violation.

Remember that one of the principles behind all "rules" for accessibility is the separation of content and form.
Although seemingly innocent... the use of the pipe to separate the elements points directly to a hard-coding of layout.

Using a correctly styled list would avoid this.

good day to all,

John

Le 07/04/2011 09:19, Jason Kiss a écrit :
> Whether or not it's a full-on violation is, like many things to do
> with semantic markup, open to interpretation. But should one want to
> take a strict approach, I could see calling it a failure of WCAG 2.0
> SC 1.3.1 since the content is fairly clearly, I would argue, a list of
> links, and so should be marked up as a list, as you describe.
>
> Making it a list would also provide assistive technology users with
> information about the number of links in the list. Such an approach is
> supported by Sufficient Technique H48: Using ol, ul and dl for lists
> or groups of links (http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20101014/H48).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason