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Re: Different link text, same link target?

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From: Rick Hill
Date: Feb 16, 2012 2:24PM

Any comment/help with this? We are finalizing a CMS design now and need to decide how to best deal with this.

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:15:38 +0000
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Different link text, same link target?

Sorry, no image attached (the list doesn't allow it). If it would be clearer, I can try to post a link to an image of the feature box.

In reviewing WCAG 2 it looks like links with the same text "label"that is the same on a page but point at different URL's is allowed under WCAG 2AA. Just not WCAG AAA (so "About" used more than once on a page as a hyperlink can point to different URL's)..

It will also seem that is is allowable to have links on a single page that all reference the same URL/target to have different descriptive text applied as long as it is sufficiently descriptive.

In the example I tried to upload, the box would work sorta like this: