Re: [WSG] Footer Navigation

2005-10-14 Thread standards
Hi Sarah, I duplicate my main menu in the footer for those interior pages that scroll vertically more then one-page down so the user doesn't have to scroll up to navigate. I know this is a common practice, which of course an intra-page link such as 'back to top is another viable option often

RE: [WSG] Footer Navigation

2005-10-14 Thread Ricci Angela
Hi, Sarah By the accessibility point of view there's no problem in duplicating links on a page if you follow this simple rule: all similar links (links with same text) *must* point to the same pages. Cheers! Angela -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Footer Navigation

2005-10-14 Thread Andy Kirkwood | Motive
Hi Sarah, COLD WAR AND NAVIGATION CRITIQUE A usability consideration with link duplication is the potential for 'navigational confusion'. This becomes more pronounced if there are *apparent* differences either in presentation or wording of the navigation. To polarise the issue, it can be

Re: [WSG] Footer Navigation

2005-10-13 Thread William Bartholomew
I think this practice is a remnant of pre-accessibility days where navigation options that were provided as images were duplicated as plain text links in the footer to aid people with images turned off etc. With judicious use of alt tags I don't believe this is something that is still necessary.