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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Feb 13, 2017 7:49AM


> Detlev wrote:
> "* G85 requires that all pages are linked directly from the home page and that
> each page has a link back to the home page. So G185 does not require each page
> to have links to all other pages, just a link to the home page. Interestingly
> there is no upper limit given for what counts as small site."

G185 is a technique that explicitly focuses on small sites with just a few pages - it covers an exception where linking back to home from all pages would be sufficient to meet SC 2.4.5 without a second means of navigation like search or site map. At least this is my understanding. So this technique is clearly not applicable to a site with millions of pages.
Detlev

>
> How could this be possible with a government website that contains millions of
> pages? That interpretation would create millions of links on just the homepage
> itself.
>
> Question: How do government web master handle this?
>
> --Bevi Chagnon
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> Hi Lisa,
> Admittedly, the difference is slight.
> * G126 requires that each page has links to all other pages of a small site.
> * G85 requires that all pages are linked directly from the home page and that
> each page has a link back to the home page. So G185 does not require each page
> to have links to all other pages, just a link to the home page. Interestingly
> there is no upper limit given for what counts as small site.
> * G125 seems fairly general and just checks that links to other pages work
> without saying anything about the hierarchy or requiring a comprehensive
> listing. So this technique would presumably work in tandem with another
> technique such as search. if you had a sub page linking back to the section
> page above (but not to the home page) AND a second option, say, a general
> search function, SC 2.4.5 would be met.
>
> I admit there is overlap between G126 and G185 but as techniques are
> informative only anyway and the small-site techniques are rarely used on the
> kind of sites that are audited for WCAG compliance (at least in my experience),
> there is probably little harm in not touching these techniques and focusing on
> the workload related to WCAG 2.1.
>
> Detlev
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> L Snider schrieb am 12.02.2017 05:35:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This has bugged me for a while. Under the techniques for wcag 2.4.5,
>> they note G125, G126 and G185. When I look at all of them, they all
>> seem to be saying the same thing.
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-mult-
>> loc.html
>>
>> The only slight difference I can see is that G185 seems to be saying
>> that you need to have links on the home page, G126 sounds like it is
>> for small sites and G125 just talks about links going to where they say.
>>
>> I have searched everywhere and can't find rationale for these three,
>> can anyone fill me in?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Lisa
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