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Re: links to the page they are on

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 11, 2019 2:17AM

It was my understanding that Lucy meant the former (the link to the current page is still a clickable link in the navigation), not the latter (in-page anchor-type links)

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> On 11 May 2019, at 04:15, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> --
> 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
>> Web Accessibility Evangelist
>> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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