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From: John E Brandt
Date: Oct 17, 2014 12:25PM

I'm curious about this as well. Methinks the APA is not aware of the
accessibility standards out there, or perhaps they think people are still
publishing "on paper."

I did find the APA Style Blog and they show both embedded and non-embedded
links as examples. I you cannot get an answer here, you may want to head
over there and contact them.

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/

~j

PS: Something else to consider; the transient nature of URLs. How many times
have you found your citations have become dead links....?

John E. Brandt
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Subject: [WebAIM] Link labels and APA citations

This question concerns links in a research paper. Accessibility best
practices are to give links meaningful labels and not just use the URL as a
label. However APA format dictates citing the URL as in:

Burgstahler, S. (n.d.). /Universal Design of Instruction (UDI):
Definition, Principles, Guidelines, and Examples/. Retrieved from The
University of Washington:
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/instruction.html

Can we assume that someone reading a research paper with a screen reader
will understand from the context of being in the reference section that APA
citations are in this format and be ok with it? Is there a way to meet both
APA and best practices.

Thanks,

Ed

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