> <a href="LINK" title="Buy TITLE 1 now">Buy Now</a> > <a href="LINK" title="Buy TITLE 2 now">Buy Now</a> > <a href="LINK" title="Buy TITLE 3 now">Buy Now</a> > <a href="LINK" title="Buy TITLE 4 now">Buy Now</a> > <a href="LINK" title="Buy TITLE 5 now">Buy Now</a>
This is an elegant solution but has one drawback. The title attribute is sometimes not supported by screen readers. Even in screen readers that do support titles, the option is not often turned on due to lack of knowledge or "information overload". For many screen reader users, the solution above would give repeated links saying "buy now" - which is not ideal. Steve Faulkner wrote about the inaccessibility of title attributes a while ago: http://www.sf.id.au/ozewai/ A possible solution, as mentioned before on this thread, is to use slightly more descriptive link content - such as including the title in the link content. You can also hide some of the link content if needed: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/more-links/ The interesting challenge here is the difference between passing accessibility tests vs helping real world users. The title method shown above is elegant and would pass many accessibility tests, yet could be less than ideal for real world screen reader users. The slightly more verbose methods, including those where hiding is used, are less elegant but much more accessible for real users. The choice, as always, is yours :) Russ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
