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Re: Are ambiguous links awful even when there's surrounding context?

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From: Laura Fathauer
Date: Apr 2, 2019 8:28AM

If the author name and "view more" are in the same list item, then
that would clearly be within the link "context":
" includes text that is in the same paragraph, list, or table cell as
the link or in a table header cell that is associated with the table
cell that contains the link. "

However, screen reader users using just a list of links or tabbing
through links will just hear the "view more." In that case, you might
apply the aria-describedby attribute to the link and reference the ID
of the name.

Laura





On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Background: we're trying to prioritize problems in a third-party application where remediation can be expensive. To say the least.
>
> I am aware that when there's *only* a "view more" link, it's not helpful, but what about when that link is in a list alongside related links? For instance, we have a list of facets. Within the "author" section, there are 10 or so linked names followed by a "View more" link. Then there's another section for Subjects, etc. Each section is under an h2-level heading, and each list of links is within an unordered list tag (ul).
>
> I'm aware this isn't ideal, but are we looking at a AA failure?
> > > >