I would argue that putting "edit delete" in front of every list item is
more of a barrier to accessibility than the white space issue.
The complexity of your interface increases by an order of magnitude: In
a list of 25 items where I want the last item means I have to listen
(and choose between) 50 links. 50 items equals 100 links etc.
How about containing your list in a form, marking up the folders with
radio's or checkboxes and choosing an action edit or delete (which
should be a post action, but thats another story) at the end?.
regards
Terrence Wood.
On 19 Jun 2005, at 2:47 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
The reason I cannot simply put both icons into <a>
tags is that they have to be separated by more than just space for
accessibility reasons.
I would argue, though, that this checkpoint has purely technical
reasons, and that the situation in which adjacent links can cause
problems (as far as I remember, Netscape 4 in combination with
Outspoken on Mac OS 9) is fairly uncommon nowadays, making it obsolete
(as per the "until user agents" clause).
Sure, it won't pass automated dumb testing, but I doubt that the vast
majority of real users (even those with disabilities) will have any
access problems if there is only a single space (or even nothing at
all) between those links.
--
Patrick H. Lauke
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