[WEB4LIB] curious web design

[TMGB]

It doesn't appear obvious that these are links until your mouse happens
to go across the blue ball.  I've seen this done before but usually you
see a link border around the ball which helps indicate that it is a link
whereas they have the border explicitly set to zero.  Although they have
good tags for accessibility issues I think the page, at that point, is
rather lacking in accessibility especially for people with impaired
eyesight already.

Thomas

Andrew Mutch wrote:
> 
> I was accessing ALA's resource page on Internet filters and noticed that they have
> a curious way of linking to the documents.  Instead of linking through the text,
> the link is through the "ball" graphic to the left of the document name which
> serves as a bullet.  Am I the only one who finds this a bit odd?  I don't think
> I've ever seen a link done this way.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/filtersandfiltering.html
> 
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI

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