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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Oct 1, 2015 1:00PM

On 1 Oct 2015, at 20:28, Chagnon | PubCom.com < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> But the same link (or wording) going to different destinations would not be good and would indeed be detrimental for AT users. Confuse the heck out of them. And non-AT users, too.

I take the liberty to disagree. From my point of view this only goes back to uses as follows:
- jumping from link to link (without looking at its surrounding context)
- looking at a list of links (without each link's surrounding context)

In any other regard consistent labelling of links can actually be useful (and is considered beneficial from a software ergonomics point of view, as much as OK buttons should look the same each time, regardless of where you will end up after pushing them...), to AT users as much as non-AT users. A link labeled "read more" will simply make everybody at almost any cognitive capability level understand to expect more of what is presented right before the link.


Do not let certain techniques in widely used screen readers blind us…



Olaf