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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Oct 21, 2004 8:22AM


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





Hi All,
Another tip, related to the front loading technique
suggested for writing linked text:
Screen readers users can use first letter navigation to
get to a link quickly in a list of links. A bunch of links called "Click
here" slows down the process of getting to say the Contact Us
link.
Also prefixing links with the org's name or the
like makes first letter navigation inefficient. If links are being prefixed
with a set of words, perhaps there is a case for grouping links with the
prefix as a header.
Sailesh PanchangSenior Accessibility Engineer
Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, 4th Floor, Reston VA
20191Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 E-mail: <A
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703-225-0387* Look up <;<A
href="http://www.deque.com">http://www.deque.com>;; *


Andrew writes:
Have you seen Trenton Moss' recent article on effective links?
May help your arguments regarding "click here to ...".
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

See <A
href="http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101703-writing-effective-link-text.html">http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101703-writing-effective-link-text.html.
Andrew

<FONT face=Tahoma
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8:58 AMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: Re: [WebAIM]
More on this story... (Was: HTML heading styles)
<FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I have a client that insists on "click here" in almost
every link because as she puts it "you don't know how many people out there
just don't realize something is a link unless it says so". At least she is
open to more than click here being in the link as in "click here for more
information on xyz".

Cheryl D. WiseCertified Professional Web
DeveloperMS-MVP-FrontPagewww.wiserways.com<A
href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ">mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> 713.353.0139
Office




<FONT
face=Tahoma>From:Stephanie
Sullivan<FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">I have a static site under my
control presently where I