Re: no title in ExternalLink

[Steve Swinsburg]

I have submitted small patches for both Link and ExternalLink to show users how to add in the title attribute themselves, in an attempt to improve the Javadocs for the HTML components and hence accessibility. More components will follow.

I will close the ticket regarding the additional constructor.

The Javadoc improvement regarding accessibility instruxtions is here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1899


cheers,
Steve







On 28 Oct 2008, at 16:48, Michael Sparer wrote:

I'll be fine with it too :-)

Michael


Steve Swinsburg-2 wrote:

I always go for accessibility and each of my links do have a title and I'd be the last one to say that accessibility (and usability) isn't important. But I think the footprint of the components should be kept as small as possible. It isn't hard to extend them anyway. If you only use titled externallinks (like I do) just subclass externallink and add an abstract method to return the title. This way you're forced to come up with a decent title - which in turn improves accessibility/usability. then you're not tempted to use a default constructor ... well just my two cents - if the JIRA goes through,

Hi all,

I've just noticed a deficiency in the ExternalLink component that
doesn't allow a 'title' field to be set in its constructor. This is a

expected behaviour).


the title attribute onto the link component. I propose a new
construcotr that takes the title attribute as a parameter (or the
ExternalLink set a title by default).

I have filed a Jira ticket here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1878


cheers,
Steve

basic HTML attribute that all links should have (for accessibility and Currently this is only achieved by using AttributeAppender and setting

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