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From: Rachel Tanenhaus
Date: Dec 16, 2003 2:00PM

Hello!

Thanks so much for the prompt response! I too am all in favor of
including text links and alt text with the hot spots. And I'm certainly
willing to agree that there's plenty of evidence that pretty much all AT
recognizes links on web pages. I think the question the designers had
was more along the lines of, "Well, if there's ONE behavior that we can
attribute to all AT, are there others? Is there a list of such
behaviors? And if so, at what point would a behavior make a list - if
80% of the available technologies perform the behavior, if one
technology with 90% of the market performs the behavior, etc.?"

I do very much appreciate your response, and I'm going to save it and
refer to it when I provide trainings and technical assistance. Thank
you!

-Rachel


Rachel H. Tanenhaus, MPH
Information Specialist
New England ADA & Accessible IT Center
374 Congress Street, Suite 301
Boston, MA 02210
Phone: (617) 695-0085 (v/tty)
or (800) 949-4232 (v/tty) (in New England)
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