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Re: please test this method of identifying document icons with hyperlinks

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From: Angela French
Date: Oct 4, 2011 1:00PM

Rick, The other problem with these tables is that they use an h5 heading in them which is not semantically correct for the page structure.
Here is an example: http://sbctc.edu/college/_e-abe_grant_rfp.aspx . I suppose that moving these titles to a caption tag would be more appropriate and could be styled similarly, though it doesn't appear that Contribute provides a means for assigning a caption tag.



>I would think that the table method at the top also would work. Could list the
>actual document name with file extension too:
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>Equipment Exemption Form.docx
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>Genearl question for all. Is there a need to post information on how to view
>Word documents (like you're supposed to for PDF's). We plan to just have a
>link in the footer to a page that lists helper tools for viewing different non-
>HTML content/documents (rather than post the links on each page where the
>content occurs).
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>Rick Hill, Web CMS Administrator
>University Communications, UC Davis
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