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From: Pearson, Elaine
Date: Oct 22, 2004 5:51PM







WebAIM Discussion List Digest 22.10.2004.




Stephanie

This is very useful, can you explain more about how to modify
the code so that the link title attribute can be populate with the title of the
article?
Thanks
Elaine
<FONT
size=2>Stephanie,&amp;amp;nbsp;Onesite I provided some advice on
recently that was being dynamically generated wasable to utilise the link
title attribute to add some useful information. Theywere 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
articletitle.&amp;amp;nbsp;Don'tknow if this is an option for you -
may be worth a try.&amp;amp;nbsp;Andrew -----Original
Message-----From: design [<A
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October 2004 8:41 AMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: [WebAIM] More
on this story... (Was: HTML heading styles)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" &amp;amp;nbsp;This approach has two advantages to
someone using a link list for navigation. &amp;amp;nbsp;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.
&amp;amp;nbsp;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.
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<EMAIL REMOVED> ect: Re: More on this story... (Was: HTML heading
styles)Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:46:53 -0600More on this
story... (Was: HTML heading styles)Cheryl,Have you seen
Trenton Moss' recent article on effective links?May help your arguments
regarding "click here to ...".See<A
href="http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101703-writing-effective-link-text.html"><FONT
size=2>http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101703-writing-effective-link-text.html<;FONT
size=2>.Andrew