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Re: Table of Contents?

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From: Shawn Bridges
Date: Feb 28, 2012 8:39AM

Thank you for the feedback. I'm experiencing pages with the table of
contents on the top, bottom and left or right div class.
On Feb 28, 2012 10:36 AM, "Jared Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Shawn Bridges wrote:
> > Looking at success criterion 2.4.5 : The table of contents should be
> > located where?
>
> The intent of 2.4.5 is to help users find and access web pages within
> a site. The Table of Contents technique, however, primarily refers to
> navigating within one specific web page. There's a disconnect between
> what the success criteria is requiring and what this related technique
> is telling you to do. Certainly a table of contents for a page's
> content would be helpful, but this would not satisfy 2.4.5. If the
> table of contents instead is linked to on every page and provides an
> overview of the content on the entire site, then it would satisfy
> 2.4.5.
>
> Jared
>