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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Oct 20, 2014 12:38PM

Hi Jonathan,

I think it is conceptually wrong. It hides "Read more" from users of certain technologies, thus it does not provide equal access.

[Leaving aside the language is far from being ideal. 'an example' can hardly 'replace text, or can it'? Who or what is to do the replacement? Clearer language would help… but that's a different story. Furthermore, the example is undecided whether something additional is to be offered or a replacement is to happen. These are different things… Confusing, at least to me.

For background: the text introducing and explaining the example mentioned by Jonathan says:

> Example 1: Providing additional information for links
> This example should replace the "read more" link text at the end of the teaser text with the content of the h2 heading referenced by aria-labelledby.

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Olaf


On 20 Oct 2014, at 20:06, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> aria-label (property) defines a string value that labels the current element.
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> Then I guess you would not like example 1 from technique ARIA 7 which replaces the on-screen link text with other on-screen text not in the link by using aria-labelledby. This is currently a sufficient technique for SC 2.4.4.
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/ARIA7.html
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> Jonathan
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