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Re: Double links (image being a spearate link, then link to product)

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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Feb 4, 2013 10:07AM

Ramya Sethuraman wrote:

> A keyboard only user or a jaws user would get the exact same information from the real link below the image. Thoughts?

As a sighted keyboard user, I expect images to be links just
because they always are. If they aren't in the tab index it won't
bother me too much, because I'll just tab to the the next link
and be all set. But it would certainly startle me, and possibly a
more visually-oriented keyboard user than me would be confused.

But I suspect the confusion to a keyboard user is probably less
troublesome than the alternate situation is to a screenreader
user, so maybe it's a net win.

-Deborah
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Deborah Kaplan
Accessibility Team Co-Lead
Dreamwidth Studios LLC