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From: Mallory
Date: May 8, 2018 11:11AM

One could argue it's not a whole lot better when things look like links, and the keyboarder *can* tab to them, but is fooled into thinking they all go to different places (links to the same place should have ~ the same text, no?). Depending on the context, you feel kinda cheated either way.

I try to have one "canonical" link and anything nearby that needs to, say, be reachable with mouse clicks or something, gets a JS listener that clicks the link. For example an image that's meant to be clickable right under a clearly-a-link text above. I've seen people stretch the anchors' padding to cover larger areas to get the same effect, though on pages like Meetup.com when you're zoomed in it kinda backfires into "the entire visible page is clickable, and you're still not certain where it goes to exactly, because there's a whole book of text inside."

cheers,
_mallory

On Tue, May 8, 2018, at 4:39 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> If there is any way not to have duplicate links that would be even
> better. Having duplicates that can't receive focus could cause confusion
> for some keyboard users who can see something that looks like a link,
> but as they tab through the application the focus moves right on by
> without stopping.
>
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