Re: Seeking lots of "click here"s


"D.M. Procida" <real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Andy Jacobs <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think it really has to be "click here", not least for the verb
"click"
which fails to apply to every user who doesn't click.

But that's just language, surely. You'd still say to a blind person "Do
you
see what I mean", you'd probably ask someone in a wheel chair if they
want
to go for a walk.

Personally, I think you're right but I don't think it has anything to do
with accessibility. The whole point is that you don't instruct people at
all.

But it's important to get web authors to start thinking along those
lines, to make them conscious of what they're writing and their
audience.

Everybody is aware that blue underlined text is a link that you 'click' on.
The first time my technophobe mother used the web when visiting she got used
to that in minutes so you really don't need to declare it. If there was blue
underlined text saying 'kiss my arse' you know you'd have to click it first.

'See details', 'Send mail', 'Back to home', 'Order green off Krusty'

For example, sometimes web authors will write "right-click to [...]" and
that *does* make content inaccessible, because they have provided
content and then told the reader to get it using a mechanism which they
don't even understand (perhaps because they use a one-button mouse).

When was the last time you saw them... are you talking about the 80's?

I assume you can verbaly "right click" with a vocal browser. Rhetorical, you
must be able to or they are flawed.

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