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Re: Best Practice for linking to documents

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Apr 11, 2011 4:27PM

This looks good, except I'd lose the expanded alt text and the <abbr>.
Nobody calls a PDF by it's real name of "Portable Document Format".
Everyone else sees and knows PDF, so I'd just keep the alt text as the
more accurate and succinct "PDF". And using abbreviation for KB isn't
really useful. If the user doesn't know what KB means, showing them
the expanded abbreviation of "kilobytes" will probably only muddy the
waters even more.

And very good job in including this important information within the
link. We typically see this content immediately after the link, which
means it would not be read in the context of the link as screen reader
users navigate the page via links.

Jared