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Re: advice on page with Non-distinguishable links

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From: Angela French
Date: Dec 1, 2016 4:18PM

Perfect! I have quite a few instances like Example 1 on my site. I'll quit worrying so much.

Angela

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 3:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] advice on page with Non-distinguishable links

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