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Re: WebAIM: Redundant link alert in Wave

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From: Steve Green
Date: Aug 3, 2020 9:17AM


Unfortunately, Wave seems to be the tool of choice for the ambulance-chasing parasite lawyers that bring all the ADA cases in the US. The tool invariably finds redundant links, and the law suits always mentions them as being insurmountable accessibility barriers.

We all know that's nonsense, but the defence lawyers don't want to get into technical arguments in court, so they just accept it and pay the resulting large settlement.

So our advice to clients in the US is to fix every one of those redundant links (and all other false positives). There is no accessibility barrier, but they make you more vulnerable to spurious ADA claims. In countries with a more reasonable legal system (just about everywhere else except North Korea) you can afford to ignore the redundant links.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Vaibhav Saraf
Sent: 03 August 2020 16:06
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: [WebAIM] WebAIM: Redundant link alert in Wave

Hi Everyone,

I am a little confused how Wave alerts for redundant links. Any idea regarding the same?

Do we really need to care much for them? Like a link for 'Shop now' is in the header and then in the navigation menu list. The second one is often marked as a redundant link.

If they post some serious accessibility issue (which I don't think in this case), how should one handle them? And some peculiar cases where these can be problematic?

Sorry for firing too many questions and thanks for reading the long enough mail :)

Thanks,
Vaibhav