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Re: AA? standard

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From: Gary Williamson
Date: Feb 4, 2009 1:50PM

Hi Rahul

Thanks for your reply. It's a UK based organisation.

Regards

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Rahul Gonsalves [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: 03 February 2009 15:02
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] AA? standard

Gary,

On 03-Feb-09, at 7:12 PM, Gary Williamson wrote:

> Hi. I carry out some work for a pretty high profile public body and
> wondered
> if someone can clarify what accessibility standard (as defined by law)
> public bodies should be working to

Which country? Different bits of legislation apply to different
countries.

> [...] whether the use of Click Here is contrary to that standard.

If your standard is based off WCAG 2.0 (unlikely, since it's a new
release), then see 2.4.4:

2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context): The purpose of each link can be
determined from the link text alone or from the link text together
with its programmatically determined link context, except where the
purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general. (Level A)

Also 2.4.9:

2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only): A mechanism is available to allow the
purpose of each link to be identified from link text alone, except
where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general.
(Level AAA)

Best,
- Rahul.