EDITOR’S NOTE: Please note Spacing’s new format for the headlines: the publication’s name is linked to the article. For an explanation please see the comments section.
MAYORAL RACE
• Toronto’s mayoral rivals come out swinging for public transit [ Globe & Mail ]
• Arm bylaw officers: Mammoliti [ Toronto Sun ]
• I won’t sell off Toronto Hydro: Smitherman [ National Post ]
• Smitherman vows not to sell Toronto Hydro [ Globe & Mail ]
• Mayoralty candidates spar over selling Toronto Hydro [ Toronto Star ]
• Selling Hydro bad for environment, Smitherman says [ Toronto Star ]
• Rob Ford’s complicated life [ Toronto Star ]
CONDOS TOWERS / SKYSCRAPERS
• Hundreds rally against highrise development plan [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto skyscrapers rise ever taller [ Globe & Mail ]
• Kill condo towers, residents say [ Toronto Sun ]
• DiManno: Worshipping at the altar of Up [ Toronto Star ]
URBAN GREEN
• Confused about recycling? Online tool can help [ Toronto Star ]
• Plastic, glass and paper pile up as recyclers close [ Toronto Star ]
TIM HUDAK
• Hudak vows secure funding for city if he becomes premier [ Globe & Mail ]
• City hall obsessed with ‘bags, bottles and bicycles,’ Tim Hudak says [ Toronto Star ]
• Ontario PC leader picks his mayor: anyone but Miller [ National Post ]
HERITAGE
• Keeping track of our heritage [ Toronto Sun ]
• Toronto’s first railway museum to open in May [ Toronto Sun ]
OTHER NEWS
• ‘Bureaucracy’ behind delay of downtown Canoe Park [ National Post ]
• Beer, bikes and lacrosse in Liberty Village! [ National Post ]
• DVP closure draws fire [ Toronto Sun ]
• Protesters and police get ready to square off at G20 summit [ Globe & Mail ]
• The Fixer: Rod in sidewalk is a pain in the head [ Toronto Star ]
• Tens of thousands gather for Khalsa Day parade [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto naysayers are wrong, says new Oxford CEO Blake Hutcheson [ Toronto Star ]
• James: Stop and smell the lilies [ Toronto Star ]
• Helping the homeless, two at a time [ Toronto Star ]
• New show plumbs Toronto politics for comic relief [ Toronto Star ]
• The Fixer: A $1.5 million war over parking spaces [ Toronto Star ]
• Who built this little shrine on the Leslie St. Spit? [ Toronto Star ]
2 comments
Having the links be the newspaper names instead of the story headlines was unintentional, right?
John: Nope, this is the new style for us.
With the change in our template having the entire headline in bold was not an attractive option. We’ve received a handful of emails suggesting that the bolded headlines was difficult to read.
The bolded headlines was difficult to read, eh?
I agree with John. The change looks like a mistake. Please fix.
Thanks! Much easier to read.
Matt,
If the bold text for headlines was not attractive, that’s an aesthetic issue you should fix. I personally find the new redesign stylish, but quite a bit less readable in general.
Your current solution both breaks expectations and causes accessibility issues. You now have 5 links titled “Globe & Mail”, 5 titled “Toronto Sun”, 4 titled “National Post”, and 16 titled “Toronto Star”.
How would someone using a screen reader navigate this? There’s a reason you changed to headlines-as-links back in 2007. Do the right thing.
Sorry, John (and Frank). This is the way we are moving forward on this.
We added more line-spacing (AKA “leading” for layout nerds) between each line of text which has greatly improved the readability of all posts.
As for a screen reader & accessibility: Since our format is consistent from top-to-bottom we know that anyone using a screen reader will not be confused (also, our web stats shown that we’ve had only four occasions in 2010 when the blog was read by a screen reader). But we’ve put the disclaimer at the top of each post just so its clear.