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From: ben morrison
Date: Oct 18, 2006 3:50AM

On 18/10/06, Penny Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Christian Heilmann wrote:
> >> Current practice seems to be to use lists for menus. Remind me: is this
> >> to satisfy 10.5 (printable characters between adjacent links)? Is there
> >> more to it than that?
> >
> > Let's turn the question around: What else would you use?
> > Different options to choose from to me is a list.
>
> Hi Chris,
> Thanks for the reply but on this occasion I need something more
> concrete to point to: I need to be able to quote chapter and verse so to
> speak.

There are lots of guidelines that you could interpret for your needs:

Divide large blocks of information into more manageable groups:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/wai-pageauth.html#tech-group-information

Group related links:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-group-links

Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-order-style-sheets

ben
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Ben Morrison