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.
On 10/14/05, Sarah Peeke (XERT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I am interested to know what you think of duplicating navigation in the
footer of a page.
I have a client who has requested it, but I do not, as a rule, include
duplicate links - I seem to recall there were some accessibility issues
with duplicate navigation links for screen readers.
What are the pros and cons regarding usability vs accessibility?
Is there a relevant standard I could quote here?
Thanks in advance
Sarah :)
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