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Posted by Bergamot on 06/03/07 12:47
Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-06-03, Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:
>> dorayme wrote:
> [...]
>>> Please do not make the point again about a pure links page.
>>
>> Just because it is something you don't use yourself doesn't mean nobody
>> else has a reason to. If it weren't a useful feature for some percent of
>> users, browser makers wouldn't bother to implement it.
>
> Yes but you can't expect every page to work in every accessibility
> feature of every browser. There's nothing in the HTML spec I can see
> about anything like Opera's View Links feature. It makes no sense on a
> www page to target specific boxes of tricks in particular browsers.
It's not really about targeting specific browsers. I used Opera as an
example because it's something you can easily check into yourself. The
same kind of feature exists in most screen readers, and no doubt other
browsers or browser extensions, too.
>> Regardless, link text needs to be meaningful out of context. Using the
>> same alt text on every link is not meaningful.
>
> But the buttons all look the same.
That's not relevant. The alt text for an individual button is.
> This alt text is on the <img> not on the link. It's not "link text", but
> "img text".
You mention the W3C. They don't have to have specs for everything, but
there is a reference to this general concept in the WCAG 2.0 draft (soon
to be a recommendation):
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/Overview.html#H30
"When an image is the only content of a link, the text alternative for
the image describes the unique function of the link."
Note "unique function". "Go" is not unique when used multiple times for
different link destinations.
> Therefore if there's a problem here it's surely the fact
> that the buttons are all the same?
Yes, that is the first problem. It would have been better overall if the
author used the question for the link instead of that 'go' button, but
the problem can be overcome with better alt text.
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Berg
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