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From: Karl Brown
Date: Tue, May 03 2016 4:59AM
Subject: [link text] What is meant by "destination"?
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Hi everyone,
WCAG success criteria 3.2.4 (constant identification) and 2.4.9 (links must
make sense out of context) suggest that when links on a page go to the same
destination they should have the same link text.
However, does that hold true when linking directly to an ID on the page, as
well as to the page itself?
e.g., a user is on page A.
Page A has a link to page B (the link's in the header so is site wide):
www.domain.com/page-b
Page A also has a link to an ID/function on page B:
www.domain.com/page-b#functionality
In this situation could the link further down on page A (i.e., not the one
in the header) have a different link text as technically the URLs they're
going to are different?
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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Tue, May 03 2016 5:01AM
Subject: Re: [link text] What is meant by "destination"?
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On 3 May 2016 at 11:59, Karl Brown < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> In this situation could the link further down on page A (i.e., not the one
> in the header) have a different link text as technically the URLs they're
> going to are different?
>
yes
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Tue, May 03 2016 5:15AM
Subject: Re: [link text] What is meant by "destination"?
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I couldn't have put it more elegantly or briefly.
Technically the URLs for the links are differnet (i.e. their
destinations), so they link text not only could, but should, be
different.
Cheers
On 5/3/16, Steve Faulkner < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> On 3 May 2016 at 11:59, Karl Brown < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> In this situation could the link further down on page A (i.e., not the one
>> in the header) have a different link text as technically the URLs they're
>> going to are different?
>>
>
> yes
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>;
> > > > >
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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Tue, May 03 2016 5:17AM
Subject: Re: [link text] What is meant by "destination"?
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On 03/05/2016 11:59, Karl Brown wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> WCAG success criteria 3.2.4 (constant identification) and 2.4.9 (links must
> make sense out of context) suggest that when links on a page go to the same
> destination they should have the same link text.
Note that 3.2.4 is about "consistent identification of functional
components that appear repeatedly within a set of Web pages". So it
doesn't necessarily mean that links always have to have the same link
text if they go to the same destination (e.g. you can reword link text
to make it suitable in the context of a sentence). This is more about
things like navigation bars (so it doesn't say "Products" on one page
and "Swag" on another or something like that.
P
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