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Re: [External Sender]Are ambiguous links awful even when there's surrounding context?

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Apr 29, 2019 1:43PM

My gripe about "view more" links is that when a user leverages a feature
like NVDA's list of links, they just see a bunch of links with generic text
and have no idea what they're for.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:32 PM Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> In a perfect world, yes, but it's an application we run that we didn't
> create, and which has a surprising amount of complexity when trying to
> override the UI. So we're trying to prioritize what to fix first. This
> kind of problem seems like a lot of work for relatively minimal gain
> compared to other issues, but I wanted to double-check.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Graham Armfield
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:11 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Are ambiguous links awful even when there's
> surrounding context?
>
> Could it not just say 'View more authors'?
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
>
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*Brian Lovely*
Digital Accessibility
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