Techniques for WCAG 2.0
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HTML and XHTML documents that include backlinks.
This goal of this technique is usually to avoid unnecessary duplication that occurs when adjacent text and iconic variations of the hyperlink are contained in a document.
Many sorts of links have each a text and iconic link adjacent to every other. Usually the text along with the icon hyperlink are rendered in separate hyperlinks,
Office Home And Student, in part to build a slight visual separation from each other. Visually they look to get exactly the same hyperlink, but they are seasoned by numerous people as two identical backlinks and this will be complicated. To avoid this,
Office 2010 Pro, some authors omit alternative text through the image, but this would fail Success Criterion 1.1.1 since the text substitute wouldn't serve precisely the same purpose as the graphical link. The chosen method to deal with this can be to put the text and picture jointly in one website link,
Office 2007 Professional Key, and supply null option text within the image to get rid of duplication of text.
Sometimes the text and the icon link are rendered in individual,
Office Home And Business 2010 Key, adjacent table cells to facilitate web page layout. Even though WCAG 2 isn't going to prohibit the use of layout tables, CSS-based layouts are encouraged in order to retain the defined semantic meaning of your HTML table elements and also to conform for the coding apply of separating presentation from content. If CSS is employed,
Office Standard 2007, this method can be applied to merge the links.