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Re: Element ID is not unique (style tags within head of html)

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From: Cindy Duggan
Date: Feb 11, 2020 11:27AM

Thanks all for the comments.

I agree that this is poor coding vs an accessibility issue.

Cindy

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:25 AM Mark Rogers < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> The tool is probably flagging it as a 1.3.1. failure because WCAG failures
> F17 and F62 used to list 1.3.1 as a failure caused by duplicate IDs:
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20140916/F17.html
> https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20140916/F62.html
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> These were both removed in
> https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20150226/
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> On 11/02/2020, 16:01, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Patrick H. Lauke" <
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> wrote:
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> Oh, and I only just noticed that you said it fails 1.3.1, not 4.1.1?
> In
> that case, no idea what that particular automated tool is
> thinking/doing. Certainly doesn't look like a 1.3.1 issue to me at
> all.
> False (by quite a long shot) positive?
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