[Irl-dean] Accessible tag cloud markup

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Colm,

> An ordered list (since the cloud is always sorted alphabetically), but
> there is no way for a screenreader to acknowledge that one item weights
> more than another. A help here might be to use some hidden text before
> the tag like: 'popular' or 'very popular' but coming up with 10 levels
> of this could prove a task on it's own!

Interesting idea, some were even suggesting emphasis based on volume!
But that ain't going to fly, you would have the screen reader shout out
the most popular links. Anyway, I think, you could write a script that
puts each of the tag elements into an array and dynamically arranges the
contents of that array in order of popularity so as the user arrows
through the list they will start at the most popular and then work their
way down to the least.

Here are some links to some articles and threads that may be of
interest. [1] - [4]

HTH

Josh

[1] http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=54537
[2] http://www.webaim.org/discussion/mail_message.php?id=10526
[3] http://24ways.org/2006/marking-up-a-tag-cloud
[4] http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=54537

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