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From: Raja Saravanan
Date: Sep 2, 2002 10:19PM

Tim,
If you are displaying the list in the table format you can use the
following format.

<table summary="List of documents to download">
<caption> Downloads</caption>
<tr>
<th id="html" scope="col">HTML Format</th>
<th id="ZIP" scope="col">ZIP Format</th>
<th id="PDF" scope="col">PDF Format</th>
<th id="Word" scope="col">Word Format</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th id="html" headers="html">Document1</th>
<th id="ZIP" headers="ZIP">Document1</th>
<th id="PDF" headers="PDF">Document1</th>
<th id="Word" headers="Word">Document1</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th id="html" headers="html">Document2</th>
<th id="ZIP" headers="ZIP">Document2</th>
<th id="PDF" headers="PDF">Document2</th>
<th id="Word" headers="Word">Document2</th>
</tr>
</table>

I guess the Screen Reader would associate the data to its heading and
read it.

Regards
Raja

-----Original Message-----
From: John Foliot - bytown internet [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:42 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: RE: Repeating the same link phrase


Tim,

From www.zaphodbeeblebrox.com, I used the following:

<A class=more
title="Read more of the Trews press release"
href="index.php?release=trews">[ More <SPAN class=hidden>The
Trews</SPAN>... ]</A>

Which "displays" [More...], but includes unique title attributes (and
thus unique links), and for backwards compatability also has extra
"hidden" text between the anchor tags.

Does anybody have a problem with this? It certainly passes the
"omnipotent" Bobby...

JF



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy J. Luoma [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: September 2, 2002 2:54 AM
> To: WebAIM Forum
> Subject: Repeating the same link phrase
>
>
>
> I have a download page where documents are available in multiple
> formats:
>
> | HTML | ZIP | PDF | Word |
> ======|========|========|========|========|
> Doc01 | HTML | ZIP | PDF | Word |
> ======|========|========|========|========|
> Doc02 | HTML | ZIP | PDF | Word |
> ======|========|========|========|========|
> Doc03 | HTML | ZIP | PDF | Word |
> ======|========|========|========|========|
>
> This passes Section 508 but fails WCAG which says (as level 2
> priority)
>
> "Do not use the same link phrase more than once when the links point
> to different URLs."
> source: http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/gls/g265.html
>
> which led me to
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-meaningful-links
>
> which led me to http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text
>
> which recommends this technique:
>
> Example.
>
> <A href="my-doc.html">My document is available in HTML</A>,
> <A href="my-doc.pdf" title="My document in PDF">PDF</A>,
> <A href="my-doc.txt" title="My document in text">plain text</A>
>
> However, that technique does not satisfy the Bobby AAA checker.
>
> Now writing this out over and over again:
>
> "Download Document 1 in PDF"
> "Download Document 1 in Word"
> "Download Document 1 in ZIP"
>
> seems a bit over-the-top.
>
> Or am I wrong?
>
> What's the best way to handle this?
>
> TjL
>
>
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