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ubuntu-docs package

link to HTML on h.u.c. has unclear function

Bug #54628 reported by Duncan Lithgow
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ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

New users, those with most need for help, are very unlikely to know what a link to HTML is for. The front page should be reorganised to give prominance to the link that _most users_ will be looking for. That link should help by the text and links to other resources, such as pdf versions, should be given lower visual priority (normally pdf links are put in brackets with file size indicated)

Duncan

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Could someone tell me if they agree this is a problem? I'll try and state it more clearly:

The convention, stated on w3c: http://www.w3.org/Talks/1999/11/15-WAI-MS/slide21-0.html is to use meaningful text for links. So rather than "click here" the text should be something which a non visual browser can interpret and say "Aha, this link is to the document called 'Dear John' ". In the case of the help.ubuntu.com page that would mean something like

<a href="/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html>"Ubuntu Desktop Guide"</a> or you can download the guide as a 683 KB PDF <a href="/6.10/pdf/ubuntu/C/desktopguide.pdf">UbuntuDesktopGuide.pdf</a>

Expecting new users to understand they should click on a link called "HTML" in order to read the documentation is _not_ user friendly and ignores a good W3C recomedation.

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

Yes, I agree this is a problem, and confirm the bug. I hope that the presentation of online docs will be wholly reworked by Ubuntu 7.04.

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Phil Bull (philbull) wrote :

This seems to have been fixed with the current h.u.c front page. OK to close this bug?

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

I'd rather call this invalid. The problem has been avoided in 7.04 because we don't have any pdf to link to.

Changed in ubuntu-docs:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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