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Re: accessibility rule help please

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jun 10, 2009 3:10PM

The example given of two links to the same location with different
link texts is NOT a problem at all. Having two links with the same
link text to different locations IS a potential problem.

Imagine an article on the WebAIM site. Our logo (with alt text) is a
link to the homepage. If we applied this rule, it means that we could
not link to the homepage of our site from any article unless we used
the exact same text as the logo. Absurd!

On the other hand, if we had two links that read "home" and one went
to our homepage and another went to some other home page, then there
is some ambiguity as to what each of the links actually does and this
can cause problems.

Jared Smith
WebAIM