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From: Wloch, Rob
Date: Nov 19, 2014 9:04AM

Hi all,

I haven't been able to find an answer to this in the WCAG 2.0 so I thought I'd ask in this forum for your opinions. Is it allowed to have multiple buttons with the same name on a webpage? I'm wondering if it's similar to the guidelines for links where screen readers would see a list of links with multiple "click here" which isn't good.

For example, something like below where the text between the square brackets represents the button names:

H2 Blah blah blah
[start]

H2 Blah blah blah
[modify] [stop]

H2 Blah blah blah
[modify] [stop]

Thanks, Rob.