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From: Karl Groves
Date: Thu, Nov 13 2003 10:42AM
Subject: <link> element and accessibility/ platform support
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Does someone have information or a resource that explains the accessibility benefits of the <link> element (other than the potential for alternative presentations)
How do screenreaders behave with <link>? Particularly, is it beneficial to supply relationships such as "next", "previous", "start", etc.?
Next, what is the level of support for this element within screenreaders? Browser support (read as: Internet Exploder) for the element is poor. Does Window Eyes support it? Does JAWS? How so? How well?
TIA
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From: julian.rickards
Date: Thu, Nov 13 2003 11:32AM
Subject: RE: <link> element and accessibility/ platform support
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Opera 7 is not a screen reader but for anyone who did not know, any website
that has implemented the <link> for related pages such as next, previous,
home, copyright, etc., these links are shown in a link toolbar of Opera.
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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Thu, Nov 13 2003 12:02PM
Subject: RE: <link> element and accessibility/ platform support
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> Opera 7 is not a screen reader but for anyone who did not know,
> any website
> that has implemented the <link> for related pages such as next, previous,
> home, copyright, etc., these links are shown in a link toolbar of Opera.
Ditto for recent builds of Mozilla (although, strangely, not Netscape...),
and Lynx has (always?) supported it. Note, you may need to adjust settings
in Mozilla to "see" the navigation bar. Go View >> Show/Hide >> Site
Navigation Bar >> and select your preferred setting. I've set mine to "Show
only as needed".
A quick check confirms that IBM HPR does not seem to support; not surprising
since it is based upon the IE rendering agent. Since JAWS (and I believe
Window-Eyes) also rely on IE, I would be surprised if <link> as a
navigational aid was supported in those applications (I have not tested)...
Re: the <link> element itself; interested list members should read:
http://www.wats.ca/articles/missinglink/49 where we advocate an adjustment
to the XHTML spec to add increased functionality (and by extension,
accessibility) to this under-used and poorly understood HTML element. Note,
what we are advocating here is not yet functional, although we are doing
some early "proof of concept" work which we hope to share within the next
few weeks. Feedback, as always, is welcome.
JF
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From: Karl Groves
Date: Thu, Nov 13 2003 12:34PM
Subject: RE: <link> element and accessibility/ platform support
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Mozilla supports the element as well, though I like Opera's support better.
Karl L. Groves, Certified Master CIW Designer
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NASA Federal Credit Union
500 Prince Georges Blvd.
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
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