Re: Action item: another example for Guideline 3.1

> A Web page includes links to two versions of a video clip from the
> governor's press conference. The link text reads, "Video of Governor's
> press conference (for high-speed connections)" and "Video of Governor's
> press conference (for dial-up connections)."

I don't know any professional Web designer who would use anything that 
verbose, nor is that the sort of thing we find on actual sites. A more 
likely and preferable markup is:

Governor's press conference (Windows Media)
<ul>
<li><a>High-speed</a></li>
<li><a>Dial-up</a></li>
</ul>

(or just Hi and Lo)


And then of course that invites fundamentalists to bitch that somebody 
committed the cardinal sin of reusing link text on a page. And aren't we 
suddenly concerned about link length?

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004AprJun/0480.html>
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004AprJun/0507.html>

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