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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Jan 3, 2007 7:30AM

We have a forms catalog where different forms are available in Word, PDF
html formats. We use a table approach to provide the information. The
column headings are "Form Number" "Title" "Word" "PDF" "Instructions."
Links to html versions are contained within the title column when that
version is available. We use icons to avoid using too much screen real
estate but the text in the alt attribute contains the name and id of the
form as well as its format. We have a couple hundred staff members who
use the catalog with either JAWS or ZoomText as well as staff using
Dragon Naturally Speaking and staff using non-standard keyboards. The
approach has proven effective for all of them.

Mike