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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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