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Re: advice on page with Non-distinguishable links

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 30, 2016 12:46PM

> That's correct. SC 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) does not require the link text itself to determine its purpose.

The thinking behind this was that a screen reader user could keep their focus on the link and use other common screen reader commands to access other contextual information. For example, screen readers often provide commands to read the header, sentence, paragraph, and list item without requiring the user to move focus.

As for the links list -- I'd consider that a feature request to screen reader vendors. As far as I know even if title is used JAWS will only display the title in the list of links if there isn't link text there already. Aria-label should work.

Jonathan

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