RE: (WCAG 2.1) Do we want to replace ​"programmatically determined link context" in 2.4.4 with "Accessible Name"?

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 4:45 PM

The proposed changes will pastorally steer developers away from depending on the enclosing *sentence* or *paragraph* as the link context and will move them towards a more robust programmatic association such as the accessible name. There is no change to what passes or fails.

If there is no change in what passes or fails, we should handle it in Understanding.

There is a change: if you use aria-label or similar mechanisms to override link text for an assistive technology, such that the label makes the purpose clear but the text of the link does not, it will pass, whereas it arguably fails now.

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