I give headings to my navigation, as well as other areas on the page, but the headings are hidden (position: absolute; left: -100em) so that they can be read by a screen reader.
From what I've read, title attributes should only be sparingly and in
special cases where more information might be helpful rather than annoying. Having the title say exactly what a piece of text says is completely useless, and having the title say something slightly different to what a piece of text says only makes things annoying for users with a screen reader that might have to read both instances of the very similar text. On 1/25/07, Katrina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Barney Carroll wrote: > I was recently told by an automated accessibility test that my > navigation was not up to scratch because it simply consisted of a plain > ul at its highest level. It penalised me for not having a preceding > heading to give some kind of indication of what the ul was about. Now > I've never seen a navigation marked 'navigation', and even in the most > of eccentric sites I've always been correct in the assumption that the > first list of links with category denominations is some kind of > navigation tool. > > I'd like to know what people think about that first of all - does > anybody give headings to their navigation? Your post really reminded me of an older post that talked about this: http://www.usability.com.au/resources/ozewai2005/ May I asked which automated accessibility test? Hope that helps. Kat ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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