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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Jun 8, 2006 9:40AM

Micheal Moore wrote:
> > 2. Different link text same destination.

Patrick wrote:
> But this does not contravene WCAG, does it? I haven't come across
> any validators that flag this as a validation fail.

I'm writing:
I believe Bobby checks this, and I thought Cynthia says does but I could
be mistaken.

The guideline says "clearly identify", the techniques doc has "If more
than one link on a page shares the same link text, all those links
should point to the same resource."

By implication, that means if they don't share the same text, they
should point to different resources?

The first paragraph in the techniques implies that to, but isn't
explicit:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text

It's a bit of a pain, the typical case (as someone has mentioned) is
things like having "_Contact_" in the main navigation precluding you
from having "_contact_us_" in the content.

In an audit situation I would let this go as people would understand,
but if you are just going by automated checks you would probably change
it to "_contact_ us".

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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