Re: Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace

I don't think that WCAG 1.0 takes this into account terribly clearly - 
proposing updates for the techniques would be one good strategy, and 
ensuring it is on the working group's agenda for WCAG 2 is another.

In principle this could be done either by the author or by the user 
agent. Currently I think user agent support for it is shaky (except 
perhaps in SVG - the news for the HTML imagemaps which are essentially 
the same functionality is not currently good...)

Cheers

Chaals

On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 06:55 Australia/Melbourne, Jonathan 
Chetwynd wrote:

> Easily imagined and said, but do you believe that the guidelines take 
> this into account?
> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Jim Ley wrote:
>> "Jonathan Chetwynd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> We use absolute positioning so I'm wondering what the theory is on 
>>> this?
>>> Is there any explicit separation? seems unlikely :-(
>>
>> If you're positioning with CSS, then you can easily provide 
>> characters which
>> are hidden, or positioned elsewhere when css is enabled, this 
>> requirement
>> obviously only applies to the non CSS-P situation.
>>
>>> and finally SVG, how are links supposed to be separated in what has 
>>> the
>>> potential to be a fine mess?
>>
>> User Agents for SVG have to cope with this in a different way, they 
>> are very
>> different mark-up languages, and techniques don't directly translate.
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