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Technique List

Techniques used to satisfy 2.4.4 (Link Purpose (In Context)
Technique Technology Implementations
Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text CSS 2
Identifying the purpose of a link using link text combined with the text of the enclosing sentence General 8
Providing link text that describes the purpose of a link General 9
Providing text alternatives for the <area> elements of image maps (X)HTML 2
Providing link text that describes the purpose of a link for anchor elements (X)HTML 12
Supplementing link text with the title attribute (X)HTML 4
Identifying the purpose of a link using link text combined with its enclosing list item (X)HTML 8
Identifying the purpose of a link using link text combined with its enclosing paragraph (X)HTML 5
Identifying the purpose of a link using link text combined with its enclosing table cell and associated table headings (X)HTML 1
Identifying the purpose of a link using link text combined with the preceding heading element (X)HTML 6
Identifying the purpose of a link in a nested list using link text combined with the parent list item under which the list is nested (X)HTML 3
Using scripts to change the link text Script 1