Alternative to 'Click on...' for visually impaired

Subject: Alternative to 'Click on...' for visually impaired
From: "Burnett S M (ISeLS)" <sburnett -at- glam -dot- ac -dot- uk>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:44:26 +0100


Hi, all

Big adventure - my first time entering a chat-room environment.

There was much correspondence some weeks ago about whether to use 'Click...'
or 'Click on...' for instructions.

My problem is a little different - in building our website of academic
courses (here at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK), accessibility is a
key issue. We need an alternative phrasing for 'Click/Click on' which will
be suitable both for the sighted user and for the visually impaired user who
may be relying on a screen reading programme such as SuperNova.

Examples include:

Click on this link to go to the xxxx website.

Click here for more information on xxxxx.

Click on this link to open the Word document.

Click to start the [multimedia] presentation.

Does anyone have any experience of this problem? and how did you solve it?

Thanks,

Sue

Sue Burnett
Production Editor
Enterprise College Wales
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd CF37 1DL
Direct line: 01443 483640

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