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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Feb 3, 2009 8:15AM

gary,

I think "Click Here" is considered poor practice in general since it does not describe the target of a link. People want to know where a link will take the. So click here is especially bad for screen reader users, since they now need to issue additional screen reading commands to get the context of the link.

I invite you to try the Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator Beta 8 version:

http://faeserv.dres.uiuc.edu

It is free tool. It was developed from perspective of "What do we want for people with disabilities", rather than "What is the minimum I need to do to comply" perspective. The best practices codify the requirements of FAE:

http://html.cita.uiuc.edu

The best practices ae based on web standards, so developers benefit from a web standards approach to design. So moving to this type of design can actually save people money in development and maintenance of websites and not only comply with accessibility requirements, but actually be usable by people with disabilities.

Hope this helps, good luck,

Jon


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>Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:42:11 -0000
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>Hi. I carry out some work for a pretty high profile public body and wondered
>if someone can clarify what accessibility standard (as defined by law)
>public bodies should be working to and whether the use of Click Here is
>contrary to that standard.
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>thanks
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>Gary
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