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Re: WebAIM: Redundant link alert in Wave

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From: Vaibhav Saraf
Date: Aug 3, 2020 10:19AM

Thanks Jared for the details.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the information. I will discuss with the consultants. Currently
I am doing some PoC for a Canadian client, so I believe its OK to ignore
the false positive.

And as Jared emphasized hopefully we will see a better picture in ADA law
suites going on.

Thanks,
Vaibhav
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 21:22, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The Redundant Link item in WAVE identifies two adjacent links that go to
> the same URL. It is an Alert, not an Error, so may not have notable end
> user impact. The Alert prompts additional testing and consideration. In
> most cases the links can be combined into one link, or one of them can be
> removed. In the example of one link in the header and another link to the
> same place in navigation, this may be appropriate. If so, the Alert can be
> ignored.
>
> > Unfortunately, Wave seems to be the tool of choice for the
> ambulance-chasing parasite lawyers that bring all the ADA cases in the US.
>
> This is very unfortunate. Use of WAVE in legal actions is a violation of
> our terms of use. We will notify any lawyers of this if/when we are
> apprised that they are inappropriately using WAVE in these ways.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared
>
>
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