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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Oct 19, 2004 1:25PM










<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Congratulations! You were the first to peg me on this!! In fact, I know
all that but for the sake of brevity, I just used the "More on this story"
text.
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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Julian Rickards <FONT
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705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960

<FONT face=Tahoma
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:05
PMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: Re: [WebAIM] HTML
heading styles
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color=#000000>Jules,
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<FONT
size=2>I would have to disagree with your link
suggestion below. The problem is that the link does not make sense out
of context. Think of bringing up a link list in Jaws. It is
particularly frustratiing if there are many story leads on a single page all
with the same link text "More on this story" after each lead. This
practice is very widespread and creates accessibility and usability
issues. My suggestion is to follow the example of the print
newspapers. When a print news article continues on another page at the
end of the current block we are given some guidance of what to look for.
"See Accessibility B12" We can do the same with a link to the remainder
of the article on a web site "More on Accessibility" instead of "More on this
story" This approach has two advantages to someone using a link list for
navigation. First it tells them what to expect when they activate the
link, second it tells them that there is something important prior to this
link that they may want to read first.

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class=525375318-19102004>Mike
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<FONT
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class=525375318-19102004> "... as a link or a "More on this story"
link after the precis.<SPAN
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