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RE: questions about accessible pdfs

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From: Jens Meiert
Date: Mar 1, 2004 9:31AM

> > Probably, inserting a title="PDF Document" in the <a> may help
> > with at least some of that [...]
>
> Explicitly mentioning "(PDF)" or similar (maybe the PDF icon, naturally
> with alt="(PDF)") is probably the best way of telling that it's a PDF
> document. [...]

Well, I've to admit that I didn't watch the entire discussion, but I
remember two interesting articles of Jakob Nielsen [1,2] maybe providing some
(additional) help in this case. -- Personally, I think visually highlighting PDF
documents is the least you should do, and it's of course helpful if there's an
icon or something else.


Best regards,
Jens.


[1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html
[2] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030728.html


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Jens Meiert
Interface Architect

http://meiert.com/


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