Accessible HTML for X-out-of-Y Results Summaries
The project I am currently involved with at work has several paging widgets i.e. for image slideshows, search results, etc. that contain summary information such as “Showing 1/8″.
So how can this information be marked up in HTML in an accessible manner?
Well, I cannot remember where I got the inspiration for this from – if I remember I will post an update – but here is the HTML that I decided to use:
<span class="summary">
Showing 1<abbr title="out of a total of">/</abbr>8
</span>
Pretty nifty eh?
Please let me know what you think.
Category: accessibility | Tags: accessibility, html 3 comments »
April 16th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Nice solution. I encountered this problem but gave up and reverted to using just slideUp() without the fade. I shall see if I can give this a try on a future project though!
April 16th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Whoops! Wrong post! Any-who, nice idea. Although I can’t say I’ve ever used a slash to designate number of pages; I’ve always just gone with “Page x of y” as it seems slightly more readable then separating page numbers by a slash.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
@Martin Bean: Yes, agreed – although some clients can be rather anally retentive about such things