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Re: Providing the correct information about a redundant link

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 21, 2020 11:26AM

On 21/10/2020 18:23, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> Also, as an aside, I don't think a redundant link is an actual WCAG
> failure (if the link with the same text goes to the same URL). it would
> fail 2.4.4 if it had the same text but was going to different places.

There's an *advisory* technique here in WCAG
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/html/H2 but note that not doing
this is not an actual failure per se.

P
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