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RE: Duplicate links...

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jun 8, 2006 10:10AM

> 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?

Oh I don't think that it implies that at all. I don't think that there
is a valid logical proof to be made from that reversal.

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

I didn't see anything that alluded to different link locations. What
are you seeing?

AWK