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Re: Current best practice/standard/guideline for linking to non-html files?

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From: Mallory van Achterberg
Date: Oct 21, 2014 4:34AM

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:14:02AM +0000, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> Benefits for indicating the type apply to people with motor, cognitive, and visual impairments. Traversing a link that is not the intended link can have more serious consequences for people with disabilities because they have to return to where they were. An argument can also be made from mobile where large documents can take a long time to download or cause the user to incur fees for data usage.
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> Jonathan

Benefits for users who need to keep their rates in mind (mobile users)
and those who know whether or not they even have an application
available that can open it. For example, if I knew I wanted to avoid
.pdf files because I have a crap phone, I now have the knowledge to
stay away.

I consider it a usability issue.
_mallory