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From: Valerie McKnight
Date: Thu, Aug 15 2002 6:31PM
Subject: Screenreaders and adjacent links
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What constitutes adjacent links, that "should be separated by more than
whitespace"?

Does a </p> or <br> separate them enough in the code, or do even links in
different paragraphs need a non-link character between them?

Thanks,

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From: Tim Luoma
Date: Thu, Aug 15 2002 7:08PM
Subject: Re: Screenreaders and adjacent links
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Valerie McKnight wrote:
> What constitutes adjacent links, that "should be separated by more than
> whitespace"?
>
> Does a </p> or <br> separate them enough in the code, or do even links in
> different paragraphs need a non-link character between them?

Speaking from the top of my head... A </p> or <br /> is likely to be
defined as whitespace. However even a "." can be enough

With a screen reader you don't know how it is going to handle
"whitespace" .... is it going to pause? Is it going to run together?

I found this directive to be a pain at first... but now I've just gotten
into the habit of phrasing things differently ... usually not a problem

TjL



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