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Re: accessibility rule help please

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From: Evans, Donald (Contractor)
Date: Jun 10, 2009 1:10PM

It seems to be Technique 13.1.1
But I am having trouble finding the exact quote about unique link text there.

There is a reference under Link Text: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text

"If more than one link on a page shares the same link text, all those links should point to the same resource. Such consistency will help page design as well as accessibility."

"If two or more links refer to different targets but share the same link text, distinguish the links by specifying a different value for the "title" attribute of each A element."

I believe it is a WCAG 1 Priority 2 requirement.



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Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility rule help please

Hello,
I'm trying to find the guideline/checkpoint that makes the code below fail an accessibility check. The rules which says that two different links on a page can't have the same target.

<p>
<a href="http://weather.com">Link label example 1</a><br />
<a href="http://weather.com">Link label example 2</a><br />
</p>

I'm going nuts trying to find it. I tested my sameple page and it validated! I could have sworn this would fail an accessibility check.


Thanks!


Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
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