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Re: Link text best practice

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From: John E Brandt
Date: Jan 4, 2011 9:36AM

I have never heard "...that URLs should always be used for link text..." -
in fact I have heard, and preached, the opposite. The only exception might
be in a digital document that will be printed out and distributed in paper
form. But that should probably be a separate document and not an HTML/XHTML
page.

You might want to point your colleagues to WebAIM for a nice
summary/discussion:
http://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/

Oh, so another example of where the actual URL is used (as opposed to a
semantically correct text description of the link) would be in e-mails like
this that are using text formatting as opposed to HTML.

~j

John E. Brandt
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Augusta, Maine, USA