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3.1

Priority 3 Item 4

Avoid using ASCII art.

Informing the user of ASCII art

ASCII art can be very annoying to some users when they encounter it with screen readers. It is a very nice gesture to include a link that will allow those users to jump over your ASCII art masterpiece.

The following is an ASCII art picture of a bearded person wearing a hat.
(Skip over ASCII art.)

              MMMMMMMM        
	  WWWWW      WWWWW       
	 ******************          
	     | \O/ \O/ |          
	     |    |    |         
             \         /           
	      \  ---  /             
		VVVVV              
 	         VVV

The following code shows you one way to do this:

<P>
<a href="#post-art">skip over ASCII art picture</a> of a bearded person wearing a hat.
<!-- ASCII art goes here -->
<a name="post-art">First text of following main body...</a>

More Resources

HTML techniques - WAI recommended technique.

View WAI checkpoint 13.10 - Provide a means to skip over multi-line ASCII art.

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