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Re: advice on page with Non-distinguishable links

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 1, 2016 10:09AM

> Another technique that is not included as a sufficient technique is using the heading itself as the context for the links, or even the name of the region or landmark in which it's contained. I would like to ask others what their thoughts are about this. If that is deemed sufficient, then you have already satisfied it.

With JAWS you can press JAWSKey+T to read the page title and it will also tell you the name of the closest heading above your location without moving focus. This same functionality isn't available in other assistive technology -- so I believe that lack of broad support caused it to be removed as a sufficient technique.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
Chief Accessibility Officer
SSB BART Group 
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