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From: Dagmar Noll
Date: Feb 16, 2006 12:09PM

<EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>When a sited person visits a
> page looking for a link to take him or her to more information about
> something that he or she knows is mentioned within a page, they will
> frequently do this by visually scanning the links on the page. (Gaining
> nothing from context)

I did that just yesterday. I was on a site that was basically directing
me to other sites that had the potential to provide me with the detailed
information I was looking for. What was emphasized on the page (and thus
drew my eyes) were the links. Unfortunately, all of the links said
"Click Here". Visually scanning that page for what I was looking for
felt very clunky and counter-intuitive.

Dagmar