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From: Angela French
Date: Tue, Oct 06 2015 10:47AM
Subject: Options for redoing this table
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Hello,
Once again I would be grateful to any who can take a look at a page we are trying to make better and suggest any ideas. This page is on our current site and we are migrating content to a newly designed site. The issue is the table with links to college websites in one column and links to a document (designated just by a PDF icon) in the other icon. There's got to be another way. The goal is to not have a redundant title for the link (Annual Status Report 2013-2014). We'd really like to get it out of the table format altogether.
http://sbctc.edu/college/e_washingtonstatequalityawardstandards.aspx
Thank you ,
Angela French
Internet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
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From: Priti Rohra
Date: Tue, Oct 06 2015 12:44PM
Subject: Re: Options for redoing this table
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Hi Angela
I don't see a problem in usinng table to present the data in question
here. In fact, table is a good option looking at the data.
To avoid the redundant title issue, you can opt for adding descriptive
link for the PDF image link using the aria-label. For example, you can
specify aria-label as "Bates Technical college Annual Status Report
20.... (PDF) and even maintain the presentation of the page.
In addition, its a good practice to include file size information to
help users decide if they wish to access/download the file. The file
size information should be available to all users and not only
Assistive technology users.
Regards
Priti
On 10/6/15, Angela French < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hello,
> Once again I would be grateful to any who can take a look at a page we are
> trying to make better and suggest any ideas. This page is on our current
> site and we are migrating content to a newly designed site. The issue is
> the table with links to college websites in one column and links to a
> document (designated just by a PDF icon) in the other icon. There's got to
> be another way. The goal is to not have a redundant title for the link
> (Annual Status Report 2013-2014). We'd really like to get it out of the
> table format altogether.
>
> http://sbctc.edu/college/e_washingtonstatequalityawardstandards.aspx
>
> Thank you ,
>
> Angela French
> Internet Specialist
> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> 360-704-4316
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = <mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> www.checkoutacollege.com<;http://www.checkoutacollege.com/>;
> www.sbctc.edu<;http://www.sbctc.edu/>;
>
> > > > >
From: Angela French
Date: Tue, Oct 06 2015 12:53PM
Subject: Re: Options for redoing this table
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Ideally, I would be looking for a solution that our CMS supports rather than having to hand code the page with aria. I would happily entertain other ideas.
Angela
From: Graham Armfield
Date: Thu, Oct 08 2015 2:30AM
Subject: Re: Options for redoing this table
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Perhaps I've misunderstood the question but would it not be possible to
load the alt attribute for each pdf link with the college that it refers to?
Eg:
<a href="education/cascadia_wsqa1314.pdf
<http://sbctc.edu/college/education/cascadia_wsqa1314.pdf>;"><img src="
../imgs/layout/icon_pdf.gif
<http://sbctc.edu/imgs/layout/icon_pdf.gif>;" alt="Cascadia
College Annual Status Report pdf" width="16" height="16" border="0"></a>
Does your CMS support that?
Regards
Graham Armfield
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Angela French < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Ideally, I would be looking for a solution that our CMS supports rather
> than having to hand code the page with aria. I would happily entertain
> other ideas.
>
> Angela
>
>
From: Angela French
Date: Thu, Oct 08 2015 9:08AM
Subject: Re: Options for redoing this table
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Yes, that is supported.
From: Angela French
Date: Thu, Oct 08 2015 2:23PM
Subject: Re: Options for redoing this table
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Actually we have moved away from using the PDF icons on the new site. Rather, we are using the CSS :after to append the file name extension to the end of the link. I guess my only option is to make the full link and it will just be someone redundant.