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From: Cohen, Lisa A.
Date: Thu, May 16 2002 6:54AM
Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
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Prof Coombs,
Can you explain why you hate the characters so much?
Lisa
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From: Prof Norm Coombs [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
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Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
As a blind user of the Internet,
I hate hate hate those characters between links that WAI thinks is so nice.
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From: Prof Norm Coombs
Date: Thu, May 16 2002 4:44PM
Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
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I hate it because what I hear is something like
home virtical bar, garage, birtical bar, sidewalk, virtical bar
and I get annoyed hearing about virtical bar after virtical bar.At 06:49 AM
5/16/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Prof Coombs,
>
>Can you explain why you hate the characters so much?
>
>Lisa
>
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>As a blind user of the Internet,
>I hate hate hate those characters between links that WAI thinks is so nice.
>
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Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
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From: iris
Date: Fri, May 17 2002 4:52AM
Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
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--- Prof Norm Coombs < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I hate it because what I hear is something like
>
> home virtical bar, garage, birtical bar, sidewalk,
> virtical bar
how about • (& # 8226 ;), which is a middle
aligned dot. would that be acceptable? how does that
get read out by a screenreader?
in the same context: what's the best way to go with
breadcrumb separation. i've noticed that > often gets
read out as 'greater than'. i tend to prefer a colon
to separate breadcrumb links for just that reason,
although usability recommends >.
home : section : page
rather than
home > section > page
iris
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