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Re: advice on page with Non-distinguishable links

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Dec 1, 2016 4:13PM

Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> The previous heading used to be listed as a valid technique. Then it
> was removed.

It's still there, but as an advisory technique -
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H80.html

This certainly isn't optimal, but relying on the heading to provide
the context is, I think, much more usable to a screen reader user than
extremely verbose and repetitive link texts, which are definitely less
accessible for everyone else.

Jared