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From: Angela French
Date: Mar 5, 2012 3:39PM

Hello,

Test example page<http://sbctc.edu/college/_e-abe_litweekNEW.aspx>;.

I could use a little advice please. The page linked to above is divided into years (h2 heading), of which there will be two years represented on the page. Then the year is divided into 5 different geographic headings (h3), then the geographic headings are divided down into representation of a specific college or colleges (h4). Each college (or group of colleges) will produce documents and these documents are named the same thing from college to college. Thus there will end up being numerous "Report", "Flyer", "Brochure", etc. links.

I know this goes against one of the accessibility guidelines about having same link labels referencing different URLs. The only way I can think to make these unique is to append the college name to each document link label. This could get quite cumbersome however on those groups that consist of multiple colleges.

I'm hoping someone might offer some advice on a simple approach. Or is it sufficient that these links are under specific headings? (I was thinking of a screen reader user in links mode and how they would distinguish the links).

Thanks for any suggestions.

Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
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http://www.checkoutacollege.com/