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mraccess77 opened this issue Oct 25, 2021 · 4 comments
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Clarify if SC 2.4.4 requires paragraph to be a P element in HTML #2109

mraccess77 opened this issue Oct 25, 2021 · 4 comments
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2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) WCAG 2.0

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SC 2.4.4 allows for link purpose within a paragraph. Paragraph is not defined - so generally we fall to the dictionary definition of paragraph which appears to be:

"a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering."

In that case a link within a span, section, div, p, etc. could still pass as being in a requirement if it meet the above.

Related to issues #1745
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detlevhfischer commented Nov 16, 2021 •
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In my book the definition would apply to div the same way as it applies to p.
I have included an example for both sentence in p and in div at the bottom of http://3needs.org/en/testing/code/link-issues.html
In Jaws, ALT + up arrow behaves the same in both cases (reading sentence up to the link focused).
There may be other contexts of course where it might make a difference - not sure.

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should reference HTML to make it more clear that paragraph is a p, but doesn't have to be a p.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#paragraphs

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JAWS also supports the control+numpad 5 command to read the current paragraph for divs and other flow content.

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detlevhfischer commented Nov 16, 2021 •
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JAWS also supports the control+numpad 5 command to read the current paragraph for divs and other flow content.

Strange - that was the first command I tried but that didn't work here (just read the link itself, in both cases)

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Update mention of "list" to "list item" in programmatically-determine…
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closes #3361

updates the term example to mention "list item" instead of "list" to be more accurate to what the intent of that likely was trying to convey.

Additionally, links to the HTML term of 'paragraph', which I would submit could resolve issues such as #2109
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Update mention of "list" to "list item" in programmatically-determine… (
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#3362)

closes #3361

updates the term example to mention "list item" instead of "list" to be
more accurate to what the intent of that likely was trying to convey.

Additionally, links to the HTML term of 'paragraph', which I would
submit could resolve issues such as #2109


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Update mention of "list" to "list item" in programmatically-determine… (
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closes #3361

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Additionally, links to the HTML term of 'paragraph', which I would
submit could resolve issues such as #2109

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closes #3361

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Additionally, links to the HTML term of 'paragraph', which I would
submit could resolve issues such as #2109

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closes #3361

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Update mention of "list" to "list item" in programmatically-determine… (
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closes #3361

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submit could resolve issues such as #2109

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closes #3361

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submit could resolve issues such as #2109

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closes #3361

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submit could resolve issues such as #2109

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