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From: Angela French
Date: Oct 20, 2014 6:08PM

Hello,
In our current website we identify links to non-html documents with a document type icon and include the icon in the hyper-texted link label. Here is an example page<http://www.sbctc.edu/college/_g-abe_cbsmeetinginfo.aspx>;.

We are in the midst of a redesign and it has been suggested that identifying document types is no longer needed either for accessibility or usability. I disagree, but would like to know your thoughts on this.

Thank you,

Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
<EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
www.checkoutacollege.com<;http://www.checkoutacollege.com>;
www.sbctc.edu<;http://www.sbctc.edu>;