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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Oct 19, 2004 11:35AM










I
don't see that there is a problem with #1 as long as the alt text is the same as
the text in the graphic and that the heading level is properly
selected.
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
I
don't like headings used as a link but, as you say, it does appear to be fairly
common practice. It does have the (minor) benefit of increasing the clickable
area. I prefer to have all of the precis of the news article (assuming the
precis is not too long) as a link or a "More on this story" link after the
precis.
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jules
<FONT face=Georgia
color=#0000ff>-----------------------------------------------
Julian Rickards <FONT
face=Georgia color=#0000ff>A/Digital Publications Distribution
Coordinator Publication Services
Section, Ministry of Northern
Development and Mines, Vox:
705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960

<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: sailesh.panchang
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004
1:17 PMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: Re: [WebAIM]
HTML heading styles
On this topic I have seen two other
questionable practices:
1. An image that has some text in it that is made
to look like a header. The alt has the text of the image in it. The whole img
tag is placed in an h1 or h2 tag. As I use the screen reader to jump
from heading to heading, this img does get focus. And it is properly
sequenced in terms of h1...h6. What do you think?
2. What do you think about a hyperlink (an
anchor element) in an h tag? Like a news item isa link and in an h tag
followed by a 1 or two line short description about the news item. And then
the link to the next news item and so on.
Sailesh