[nfbcs] Links on a Website

[Peter Donahue]

Hello David and everyone,

    On the other hand it's great to be able to go directly to other areas of 
a Web site without always needing to return to the home page. I had to 
redesign several NFB and other Web sites so site navigation links appeared 
on all site pages.

    There are Web technologies such as AJAX that could reduce if not 
eliminate the number of redundant links on Web site pages. For an example of 
this visit:
http://www.aircharterguide.com

    That site uses AJAX to hide many repetitious site links. If one hits the 
spacebar on the (More) Icon the entire menu is exposed. This is one way to 
reduce the amount of repeated links on site pages. And since AJAX controls 
can be assigned keyboard commands such Web sites can be made to be quite 
accessible. Interestingly enough air charter company Web sites have been 
among some of the most accessible travel related sites I've visited. All the 
best.

Peter Donahue who is currently in a self immersion in to ASP.net and AJAX.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Links on a Website


OK Don Quixote!  I agree but you are tilting at a windmill that isn't
going to go away.

Dave

At 10:14 PM 10/25/2010, you wrote:
>I agree with you, Dave.  However, it does rather puzzle, if not irk,
>me that sighted persons seem congenitally unable to find the "back"
>button; they must have all the links right out there in front of
>them so they can just keep clicking forward.  WE used to here from
>unreconstructed teachers and childcare personnel that blind children
>have trouble with "object permanence".  Seems to me it's the sighted
>that have trouble with object permanence -- at least on
>computers.  If the back-arrow isn't looked at, it apparently doesn't
>exist. (grin)
>
>Fred, if you look on the NFBW web site, you won't find those
>repeated links; you'll just find a "back to home page" link at the
>end of the other pages. I figure people can click to the home page
>and find the links there again. Unless, of course, they forget they
>exist on the home page. (smirk)
>
>Mike

                         David Andrews:  dandrews at visi.com
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