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               <td valign="top" align="right" nowrap="true" colspan="2" class="requirements">WAI / WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 checkpoint 13.1</td>
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                     The page contains links with text labels (i.e. A elements with
                     textual content). Ensure that labels are meaningful, informative
                     and brief. 
                     
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                  <p> Link text should be meaningful enough to make sense when read out
                     of context -- either on its own or as part of a sequence of
                     links. Link text should also be terse. For example, in HTML, write
                     "Information about version 4.3" instead of "click here" or "click"
                     or "here" or "go". In addition to clear link text, content
                     developers may further clarify the target of a link with an
                     informative link title (e.g., in HTML, the "title" attribute).
                     
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                     Edit the label of the link so that it
                     clearly describes where the link is directed. The description should be brief
                     and clearly understood if read out of the context (i.e. in
                     a list of all the links of the page).
                     
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                     If the link label is not enough, also use the link title (which in
                     many browsers will be displayed as a tool-tip, in a small temporary
                     window, when the mouse is moved over the link). If link titles are used, however,
                     use them consistently on all the links of the site.
                     
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                     Most assistive technologies are able to extract all the links from the
                     page and render them as a separate list. In these cases, from the
                     information that is contained in the link label (i.e. content), and in
                     the link title attribute, users have to be able to understand where
                     the link leads.
                     	 
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                     For this reason, links like "more info", especially if repeated several
                     times in the page, are not clear enough when taken out from the
                     context. 
                     
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                     Consider also that link labels should provide as much information as
                     needed for the user to discern what the destination of the
                     link is. The user should have  a clear understanding of where a link goes
                     <strong>before</strong> clicking it. Otherwise, the user will have to
                     spend time waiting for the new page to be downloaded and displayed,
                     and spend effort in reading it, possibly to no avail.
                     
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                     This is especially important for links leading to very heavy pages (to
                     warn the user of a longer than usual response time), or to pages
                     requiring specific plug-ins (like PDF, Flash, MS Word, etc.).
                     
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