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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Jun 8, 2006 7:40AM

Actually there are a couple of instances when the automated checkers
will fail things for "duplicate" links.

1. Same link text different destinations. This can be a false failure if
for instance on link drops to an in-page anchor at the start of the
content and the other leads to the top of the page, otherwise this is a
real problem for all users.
2. Different link text same destination. This is frequently a problem
when we try to link to a page included in navigation with somewhat
different link text inside of the content of a page. This example is
more of a judgment call, (imho) - the different text can be helpful for
some users in gaining understanding of where they should go, however
when I bring up a link list in JAWS, I think that there are two separate
destinations. Best case - the link text in the navigation is so clear
that there is no reason to use different wording in the body of the
content.

mike

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Duplicate links...

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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