(X)HTML Techniques (Techniques XML Submission Form)

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Technology: (X)HTML Techniques 
Techniques Category: Links 
Submitter's Name: Chris Ridpath 
Submitter's Email: chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca

<technique id="UNKNOWN">
<short-name>Large number of links should not contain redundant text</short-name>
<applies-to>
 <checkpoint idref="navigation-mechanisms" />
 <success-criterion idref="UNKNOWN" />
</applies-to>

<checklist-item>
<p>Each link must contain text in only one place (title attribute, content or IMG alt attribute)</p>
</checklist-item>

<description>
No more than 5 A (anchor) elements can contain redundant text (same text appears in multiple places within anchor).



Remove text from within the anchor until it appears in only one place. Anchors can contain text in their body content, TITLE attribute or IMG ALT text.

</description>

<user-issues>
 <affects group="UNKNOWN" />
</user-issues>

<eg-group>
<description>


</description>

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<ua-issues>

</ua-issues>
</eg-group>

<resources>
<see-also><br />&lt;p>
 <loc href="http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/checks/testfiles/175-1.html" >will fail </loc>
</p><br /></see-also>
<see-also><br /><p>
 <loc href="http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/checks/testfiles/175-2.html" >will pass </loc>
</p></see-also>
</resources>
</technique>

Additional Notes:

Discussed on list:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004JanMar/0649.html