[IxDA Discuss] What to do when linking to documents?

[Jennifer Berk]

On 8/13/07, Gustavo Gawry <gustavogawry at gmail.com> wrote:
> What i meant with the accessibility issue was I blind user with a screen
> reader starts navigation through links using TAB he will not see the first
> sentence with the name of the file. If this is a list of documents the
> screen reader will read something like "Open, Save,Open, Save,Open,
> Save,Open, Save," which means nothing...

Can you reword the links?
Open document_name (PDF - 345KB) | Save document_name

Or put the filename in the link (as well as before it, as in your
original question) but hide it offscreen for sighted users?  I.e.
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent/ .

Jennifer Berk
Information Architect
Purple Monkey Studios, Inc.