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From: Jason Kiss
Date: Apr 7, 2011 1:21AM

Whether or not it's a full-on violation is, like many things to do with
semantic markup, open to interpretation. But should one want to take a
strict approach, I could see calling it a failure of WCAG 2.0 SC 1.3.1
since the content is fairly clearly, I would argue, a list of links, and
so should be marked up as a list, as you describe.

Making it a list would also provide assistive technology users with
information about the number of links in the list. Such an approach is
supported by Sufficient Technique H48: Using ol, ul and dl for lists or
groups of links (http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20101014/H48).

Cheers,

Jason
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On 07/04/11 05:37, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I don't think that this violates any WCAG 2.0/1.0/508 criteria.
> There may be usability advantages for another method, but no
> violation.
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> Thanks, AWK
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> Andrew Kirkpatrick Group Product Manager, Accessibility Adobe
> Systems
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