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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 7, 2006 5:10PM

John Foliot wrote:

> On one hand, there *is* the issue of duplicate links - very often screen
> reader users will bring up a list of links (in JAWS it's "INSERT + F7") to
> replicate a "page scanning" type of review - one reason why link text must
> also make sense when taken out of context.
[...]
> As far as the WCAG is concerned, always remember that they are Guidelines,
> and not standards, and so are subject to interpretation.

But, as I mentioned already, Cynthia shouldn't (and in my modest
testing, rightly doesn't) fail pages with duplicate links. It's only
when you have the same link text pointing to different URLs that you get
a failure. So, there isn't actually a validation issue here, unless
Stephanie's links are in fact pointing to different places?

Patrick
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