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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Oct 21, 2004 6:53AM





More on this story... (Was: HTML heading styles)



The
unfortunate thing about the title attribute is that JAWS users don't necessarily
"see" it because the standard verbosity setting in JAWS does not read title
attribute text.
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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<FONT face=Tahoma
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7:54 AMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: Re: [WebAIM]
More on this story... (Was: HTML heading styles)
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size=2>Stephanie,
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One
site I provided some advice on recently that was being dynamically generated
was able to utilise the link title attribute to add some useful information.
They were able to modify the code so that, while the link text was still "Read
more ...", it had an associated title that they could auto-populate with the
article title.
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size=2>Don't know if this is an option for you - may be worth a
try.
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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8:41 AMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: [WebAIM]
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face=Verdana>On 10/19/04 3:05 PM, "mmoore"
simply typed the following:
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. <FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">I like your idea for a static
site... But for a dynamic one, this is not always possible. And I agree that
it's problematic and shouldn't be done. I've dealt with this on a couple
sites I subbed for and did the HTML/CSS coding only. I didn't have enough
control over the final product to affect the outcome (and thus, all the
links say "Read more..."), however, I'm not really sure what could have been
done differently either.The "Read more..." portion received its link
(a href) dynamically and each is a news story.I have a static site
under my control presently where I'm able to change all the "Click here"
notes the copywriter made into more descriptive links. I've even been able
to educate her on why "Click here" isn't a good idea. LOLStephanie
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