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Re: [link text] What is meant by "destination"?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 3, 2016 5:17AM

On 03/05/2016 11:59, Karl Brown wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> WCAG success criteria 3.2.4 (constant identification) and 2.4.9 (links must
> make sense out of context) suggest that when links on a page go to the same
> destination they should have the same link text.

Note that 3.2.4 is about "consistent identification of functional
components that appear repeatedly within a set of Web pages". So it
doesn't necessarily mean that links always have to have the same link
text if they go to the same destination (e.g. you can reword link text
to make it suitable in the context of a sentence). This is more about
things like navigation bars (so it doesn't say "Products" on one page
and "Swag" on another or something like that.

P
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