Comments on: Bigger Clickable Areas With BigTarget.js http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/bigger-clickable-areas-with-bigtargetjs/ Free Web Resources Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:25:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Leevi Graham http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/bigger-clickable-areas-with-bigtargetjs/comment-page-1/#comment-20598 Leevi Graham Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:15:40 +0000 http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/?p=552#comment-20598 @Jonas: Can you explain how this reduces usability? The text can still be selected and a tooltip is added to the whole clickable area. I would argue that this only can increase usability. The extension is also unobtrusive so it will not affect screen reader accessibility. Your suggestion on the other hand may reduce Search Engine Optimisation as you can only use inline elements. This is unacceptable if you want to use heading tags or block quotes inside the content. Your page hierarchy would basically become flat and therefore Google, Yahoo etc would not put any extra value on those heading elements. @Jonas: Can you explain how this reduces usability? The text can still be selected and a tooltip is added to the whole clickable area. I would argue that this only can increase usability.

The extension is also unobtrusive so it will not affect screen reader accessibility.

Your suggestion on the other hand may reduce Search Engine Optimisation as you can only use inline elements. This is unacceptable if you want to use heading tags or block quotes inside the content. Your page hierarchy would basically become flat and therefore Google, Yahoo etc would not put any extra value on those heading elements.

]]> By: Jonas http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/bigger-clickable-areas-with-bigtargetjs/comment-page-1/#comment-20106 Jonas Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:54:06 +0000 http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/?p=552#comment-20106 This is a bad idea, since it narrows the usability and can be easily replaced by only HTML/CSS (wrap "<a>"-element around non-block elements and use CSS to style the things) This is a bad idea, since it narrows the usability and can be easily replaced by only HTML/CSS (wrap ““-element around non-block elements and use CSS to style the things)

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