Descriptive Links and Formal Citation Lists #5048
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Are hyperlinks that are not reformatted to be descriptive links acceptable in formal citation lists (such as APA format)? I have really tried to find an explicit allowance of this that I can show to my worried faculty, but it has been hard to source. The APA says its fine, my accessibility tool team tells me its fine, but I sure would love to be able to point to WCAG instead. Looking at this Issue seems that clarifying text is likely coming in the future, but I am not confident enough with your processes to tell people, "don't worry, it will be clarified in a soon coming update." Thank you for all the effort you put into this project. |
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Yes, presuming you are asking about WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance. See Understanding for SC 2.4.4. Maybe the practice would fail against 2.4.9 at AAA. With 2.4.9, there is the expectation that a “link list” be a good way to navigate through a page. I think someone familiar with formal citation lists would be more than fine with this. See Understanding for SC 2.4.9. If you don’t feel like your question is adequately answered by Understanding, please propose a change that might have preemptively addressed or clarified the uncertainty! |
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Thank you @bruce-usab, I think that satisfies my current needs. #1570 had very subtle changes to the section about links that made me reevaluate the wording and I don't know if there is anything better that I would be able to suggest at the moment. Maybe "without moving focus from the link" is more ambiguous to me as someone not using assistive technology and it would be understood that the user would be able to find the nearby link context. Good to note about 2.4.9 AAA, but as I am fighting to get people to meet 2.1 AA for the Title II requirements I am going to let that be something for the style manual publishers to worry about for the time being. |
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Yes, presuming you are asking about WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance. See Understanding for SC 2.4.4.
Maybe the practice would fail against 2.4.9 at AAA. With 2.4.9, there is the expectation that a “link list” be a good way to navigate through a page. I think someone familiar with formal citation lists would be more than fine with this. See Understanding for SC 2.4.9.
If you don’t feel like your question is adequately answered by Understanding, please propose a change that might have preemptively addressed or clarified the uncertainty!