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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 10, 2019 9:15PM

To clarify, you are talking about if example.com/second-page, has <a href="
http://example.com/second-page">Second page</a>, and not <a href="
http://example.com/second-page#subSection>;go to the subsection</a>, correct?

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Ryan E. Benson


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 8:07 PM Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> thanks for the quick reply so the cognative working group did not think
> this was a problem? interesting
> Lucia Greco
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> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:03 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/05/2019 00:56, Lucy Greco wrote:
> > > hello:
> > >
> > > i personaly do not like having links on a web page to the page itself
> > as
> > > it can be vary frustrating for a user if they think they have gone to a
> > new
> > > page and find they are on the same page. could some one tell me wair to
> > > find this problem in the w3c speck thanks
> >
> > If you mean if this is addressed in WCAG, then no...it's a general
> > usability, rather than accessibility, issue ... so nothing that would
> > directly contravene any SC.
> >
> > For AT users, the issue can be mitigated by adding aria-current="page"
> > to the link, which will (in supported browser/AT combos) at least
> > announce that the link relates to the current page.
> > https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/#aria-current
> >
> > And yes, while it can be annoying having a link basically to where you
> > are, there's also an argument that this creates a certain consistency
> > (so the navigation has the same actionable links in every page).
> >
> > P
> > --
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> > > > >