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Re: Separating adjacent links

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jul 28, 2005 3:06AM

> > What is wrong with using a list for links? I always thought just using
> > a list does make it fine for screen reader users. Visually you can
> > use a background image or a border to separate them.
>
> I think the problem is not the visual form of display. Rather there was a
> major problem in older screen readers being used with braille displays. If a
> charakter was omitted between links the braille display would show

Cheers for that. However, a visual separator also helps low vision
users and those with cognitive problems.

In any case, IMHO adding extra content and markup to cater for these
old user agents is like spending another 40 hours to create a Netscape
4.x style sheet. If you really want to, do it, by all means, but there
are better ways to make your site more accessible and usable.