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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 2:30PM

Rick, when you say that "Word" could be replaced with a background image, do you mean something where two styles would be applied: one to make Word display:none, and another to apply the background image (as shown in this article: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2003/03/07/replace-text.html )? I don't believe this technique could be implemented in Contribute as I don't think it provides a means of applying two styles to one element. Or did you have some other method in mind for this replacement?

Angela


>I think your the examples will probably also be fine. I only suggest using the
>file extension in the document name to make it clearer. Could also make the
>document names the link and add the doc type in parens:
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>Equipment Exemption Form (Word)
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>Which may even be clearer. You could then style (Word) to be replaced with
>a Word background image. Though that hides the text description of the
>document type from sighted users leaving them only with an icon ...
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