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Dear all,

I'v ebeen running the pages of my site http://www.sheffieldlive.org through the accessibility checker at http://webxact2.watchfire.com/ and on the page where the News module is embedded it gives me this priority 2 error

Do not use the same link phrase more than once when the links point to different URLs.

The explanation of which is;

If more than one link on a page shares the same link text, all those links should point to the same resource. Such consistency will help page design as well as accessibility.
If two or more links refer to different targets but share the same link text, distinguish the links by specifying a different value for the "title" attribute of each A element.

When the same link phrase re-occurs, there is an implication that the links point to the same place. If they do not, users may be surprised and disoriented.

The piece of offending code is

hccp://www.sheffieldlive.org/moduleinterface.p ... il&cntnt01

which appears 4 times on the page because of the Read More tags at the bottom of the news items. Although they point to different news items they appear to the WAI checker as the same link.

When the News module next gets looked at, would someone see if there's a way to either vary the link text based on the name of thearticle or insert a limited string from the news title into a 'title' property within the tag.

Cheers

Utter wrote:When the News module next gets looked at, would someone see if there's a way to either vary the link text based on the name of thearticle or insert a limited string from the news title into a 'title' property within the tag.

That is indeed a good idea and maybe not too late for 0.10 ... adding a title-attribute that contains the name of the headline.

Regards,
Nils