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Re: text links on a separate page - compliant with 508?

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From: Michael D. Roush
Date: Mar 2, 2005 2:23PM

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] text links on a separate page - compliant with 508?


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: mroush wrote:
:
: >: Ironically, a really clever dynamic navigation should only give the
: >: necessary navigation to the low end user and add the other only when
: >: JavaScript is available, this will offer high end users the shortcut
: >: functionality these navigations are meant to offer and not overwhelm
the
: >: low end users with lots of links they don't need.
: >
: >...or perhaps better, a really clever dynamic navigation should make the
: >'necessary' navigation come first, and make the other skippable, not
wholly
: >eliminated based on whether or not JavaScript is available?
: >
: >
: >
: That'll make it hard to keep a connection between the links though. A
: nested list tells me which links belong to which main section, listing
: the main sections first and the sub sections later will make it more
: confusing.

True, that is a potential problem. Given that we are talking about a
situation where there are 100 links or more, and let's say, grouped into 10
groups of 10. How about this....?

The first list is of the 10 groups. The next 10 lists are each of the 10
groups. The first group is named "top", each subsequent group is named
something like the group it is in. In the "top" list, each list item is one
of the 10 groups, and the text is a link to that group.

In each of the 10 "group" lists, the first 10 list items are the links that
belong in the group. Then, the final list item(s) are navigational in
nature ("Previous Group (named)", "Top", "Next Group (named)").

I'm just sorta brainstorming, but it seems like a reasonable way to go for a
very large group of links.