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Re: why don't accessibility checkers find non-distinguishable links?

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From: Jon Brundage
Date: Dec 2, 2016 8:31AM

Hi Jared-

So this would be acceptable? -

<heading>2015 documents</heading>
<href> privacy </href>
<href>security</href>

<heading>2016 documents</heading>
<href> privacy </href>
<href>security</href>

I've always thought that links that have the same link text but different
destinations must be made unique. It seems that even with the context of the
headers when put into the links list they would not be easily
distinguishable.

Thanks,

Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Smith
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 1:10 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] why don't accessibility checkers find
non-distinguishable links?

WAVE doesn't fail this as an error because there is very minimal user
impact - and that impact is hardly worse for people with disabilities
than anyone else. And the example you provided is not a WCAG AA
failure anyway because the headings provides programmatic context for
the links.

Any tool that indicates a WCAG failure for any two links with the same
text that go to different places is being very creative in its
interpretation of WCAG.

Jared