[Athen] May be a simple question

[glen walker]

>  Does the link text make sense when it is “standalone?”


While I always recommend that, it's not required under WCAG AA (it's a AAA
guideline).

If you want to know if a link is accessible, use WCAG to measure it.
Catherine essentially did that but without specifying the actual
guidelines.  Not sure if you need it, but here are some relevant ones:

   - 2.1.1 Keyboard - you should be able to TAB to the link and select it
   (ENTER) with the keyboard
   - 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) - the link along with any text that's
   contained in the same paragraph (<p>) makes sense
   - 2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only) AAA - typically not required but I
   strongly encourage this, the link "stand alone", as Catherine said, makes
   sense
   - 1.4.1 Use of Color - if you have a link embedded in a paragraph and
   the link color is different from the paragraph text color but you have link
   underlines turned off, that would fail because it's relying *only* on color
   to distinguish the link.  The link text must have some other visual
   difference such as bold font or different typeface.  Ideally, links should
   be underlined.
   - 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) - The color of the link compared to the page
   background color must have sufficient contrast.
   - 3.2.4 Consistent Identification - If you have the same link on several
   pages and they all point to the same location, the same link text should be
   used.
   - 1.1.1 Non-text Content - If the link contains an image, the image
   should have alternative text.

It's a simple question, "Can you tell me how to check if a web link is
accessible?", but can be a long answer.
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