[thelist] Styling the Active Link State
Lena Marianne Arvola
chase at ontask.net
Fri Mar 28 13:03:03 CST 2003
> it's worth noting that, as a user, i find this particular behavior to
> be a Very Good Thing(tm)... i rely on it all the time... i also know
> some handicapped users who rely on it to make tabbing through a
> page easier...
I certainly believe in accessibility in designing. The purpose I had in
mind is that I am designing a header that contains a row of several small
photographs. During some recent user testing, the feedback was made that
the user wishes they could click on the photos for navigation or just to
get more information about the picture (more than just an alt tag). Since
the design team does not want to have a one to one relationship between the
global navigation items ... there are 6 categories... we decided that we
don't want each picture linking to a specific navigation item.
So, instead, I added a link on the four images (which is one image really)
to a new page that describes the pictures, and I've added placeholders for
linking to larger images, etc.
Although, I've noticed that the dashed line around the images in the header
is distracting when using the back button or when navigating back to that
original page.
Not a major problem... just not pretty.
Thanks for all the good info!!!
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