Very Bad
Long Description: Links cover three main categories: corn, soybeans, and small grains with six separate subcategories. Under each subcategory are four links: excel, acrobat reader, html, and interactive html. These same four links are repeated six times on the page.
Speaker Notes:
How NOT to Identify PDF Links: Very Bad
In this example, multiple links are identified with the exact same link text, so that as the screen reader moves through the document it is difficult to distinguish which link is associated with which title (e.g., "corn," "soybeans" or "small grain" -- let alone the subtitles).
One way to help this would be to create a data table and make each of the titles and subtitles header cells (see the "Bad" example), so that when the screen reader entered the cell with the link "HTML", it would also read the appropriate header (e.g. "Corn, Conventional Tillage." But this still doesn't resolve the problems in the LINKS LIST (next slide).