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"Indexes are really useful, but it was really hard to find"

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An index helps readers to find information on a specific topic within a book. By including hyperlinks from each index item to the relevant section in the book, it can become an important navigation tool, and should be made prominent (unlike in printed books, where indexes are traditionally found at the back).


3.1 Include an alphabetical index
3.2 Create hyperlinks from index items to relevant sections of the book
3.3 Make the index prominent


Consult the following recommendation from the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0:
Guideline 13: Provide clear navigation mechanisms
Figure 3

Figure 3. Index: The Joy of Visual Perception by Peter Kaiser

A section of the index to The Joy of Visual Perception, with hyperlinks to relevant sections in the book.

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