Re: [WSG] source order

2007-10-15 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 13/10/07 (09:21) JonMarc said: with all the skips and jump tos and methods for pulling links and whatnots, i wonder how many people using screen readers ever make it down there to the footer/copyright/whatever-else-you-put-there Remember that screen reader applications can commonly call up a

Re: [WSG] source order

2007-10-15 Thread Terrence Wood
Rick Lecoat wrote: Remember that screen reader applications can commonly call up a handy list of all the links on a page Has anyone tested how skip links work from a link list? I have a little theory called the hierarchy of link specificity that I've been meaning to write up for years. The

Re: [WSG] source order

2007-10-15 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Terrence Wood wrote: It goes something like this: with a reverse source order (content before nav) content specific links will always appear before the current section nav ,main nav, and utility links - this should have the effect of allowing the most relevant (to the current context) links

Re: [WSG] source order

2007-10-15 Thread Terrence Wood
If you landed on the page from a search result and it's not the page you want... can we assume that it be close, given you clicked to there in the first place? Patrick, I suspect your assumptions are way bigger than mine on this one :-) But, like I said, it's a theory (untested), so we

[WSG] How to make DHML cover flash

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Kear
I have a page where there are some dhtml menus with drop downs across the top of the page, and a large flash object in the body of one of the pages. However the drop-down menu items are going underneath the flash object so they can't be clicked on. I thought I should just put the flash