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Re: [External Sender]Are ambiguous links awful even when there's surrounding context?

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: Apr 30, 2019 6:39AM

Yeah, as I say it's far from ideal, we're just trying to decide if they're top priority.

In this case, you'd get a list of probably 50 links where 3 would be "view more" and the rest would be out-of-context facets like an author's name. I don't know that a list of links would be very useful without the surrounding heading that tells you it's an author filter. Especially since some of our authors are actually entities like "United States. Bureau of Land Management. Prineville District".

When an article is shown, its title is linked, but these facets are where things get a bit complicated.

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My gripe about "view more" links is that when a user leverages a feature like NVDA's list of links, they just see a bunch of links with generic text and have no idea what they're for.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:32 PM Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> In a perfect world, yes, but it's an application we run that we didn't
> create, and which has a surprising amount of complexity when trying to
> override the UI. So we're trying to prioritize what to fix first.
> This kind of problem seems like a lot of work for relatively minimal
> gain compared to other issues, but I wanted to double-check.
>
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> Could it not just say 'View more authors'?
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