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Re: Thoughts on citing multiple WCAG criteria for one issue

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Nov 17, 2019 4:35PM

On 17/11/2019 22:05, glen walker wrote:
> When doing compliance testing, do you limit the criteria for an issue to
> just one criterion so as not to overinflate the number of issues found on a
> page?
[...]
> As another example, if you have an image embedded in a link and the link
> itself does not have any visual text and the image doesn't have alt text,
> that could be both 1.1.1 and 2.4.4.

And also 4.1.2, as then the link lacks an accessible name too.

It depends on how you report things. If you're doing a spreadsheet
showing all issues found, then you should really show everything that
was failed. In a more freeform/written report, I'd make a single issue,
but note that it fails all these separate SCs...but still write it up as
a single "thing".

P
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