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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 8, 2017 3:46PM

> I don't understand why a preceeding heading Is not considered sufficient programmatic context by WCAG, while a paragraph or sentence is.

The idea is that the user should be able to hear the context without having to move focus from the link. There are screen reader commands for those other things which don't require you move focus. Only JAWS supported announcing the preceding heading with the insert+t command -- so that technique was not assistive technology supported.

Jonathan

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