No repetitive links
Normative Text
Repetitive adjacent links that have the same destination are avoided.
Supplemental if applicable to all content, else best practice.
A common pattern is having a component that includes a linked image and some linked text, where both links go to the same content. Someone using screen reading software can be disoriented from the unnecessary chatter, and a keyboard user has to navigate through more tab stops than should be necessary. Combining adjacent links that go to the same content improves the user experience.
Methods & best practices
- Method: When repetitive links are used, remove them from the focus and reading order.
- Method: Use a single link instead of multiple links to the same destination.
- Best practice: Combine repetitive links into a single interactive element.
Tests
This section is non-normative.
Procedure
For set of adjacent links that go to the same destination:
- Check that only one of the links is in the focus and reading order.
Expected Results
- #1 is true.
Tests
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Key Terms
- accessibility support set
group of user agents and assistive technologies you test with
The AGWG is considering defining a default set of user agents and assistive technologies that they use when validating guidelines.
Accessibility support sets may vary based on language, region, or situation.
If you are not using the default accessibility set, the conformance report should indicate what set is being used.
- accessibility supported
available and working in the user agents and assistive technology in the accessibility support set
The working group intended to include a default accessibility support set. See Default accessibility support set #277.
- component
grouping of elements for a distinct function
- content
information, sensory experience and interactions conveyed
- human language
language that is spoken, written, or signed (through visual or tactile means) to communicate with humans
See also sign language.
- programmatically determinable
meaning of the content and all its important attributes can be determined by software functionality that is accessibility supported
- sign language
a language using combinations of movements of the hands and arms, facial expressions, or body positions to convey meaning
- text
sequence of characters that can be programmatically determined, where the sequence is expressing something in human language