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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 4, 2009 7:10AM

Actually Chris, WCAG 2.0 provides for greater latitude here than was available in WCAG 1.0. At level A you could have the "buy" links that Don Evans described and not have "buy product X" be what is spoken. For level AAA you do, however.

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)

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)

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Chris Hoffman
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text


Why do we (and WCAG) go out of our way to let users avoid context when
reading our pages? Is it because screen reader users can navigate by
running through a list of links? Well I (a sighted user) can do the
same thing by scanning the page, but I still need to go back and check
the context of a link before I click on it.

If we are to assume screen reader users ignore context, then we should
probably include hidden text with all pronouns to describe their (the
pronouns') referents, too.

Chris

On Aug 3, 2009, at 3:25 AM, "E.J. Zufelt" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Good morning,
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> Trying to build support for more meaningful link text in Drupal 7. To
> this end I am investigating using CSS to hide a portion of link text.
> If anyone has strong, or medium, feelings about this method I'd love
> to hear them.
>
> Also, wondering if anyone can point to examples of sites that are
> using WCAG 2.0 technique C7 - Using CSS to hide a portion of the link
> text - http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/C7
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