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Re: Link text best practice

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 4, 2011 10:18AM

On 04/01/2011 17:14, John E Brandt wrote:
> Cool. I'd like to see (borrow) that code.

cast your mind back to the middle of the last decade :)

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/improvingprint

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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Langum, Michael J
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:47 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Link text best practice
>
> Our CSS guru came up with a way to use a media=print CSS to reveal rule to
> reveal URLs in print copies, but not in screen versions (if the URL was not
> present in the actual text.
>
> -- Mike
>
>
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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jon Brundage
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Link text best practice
>
> Hi Gareth,
>
> You are correct. One of the things most sited by users of screen readers is
> the annoyance of going into "links mode" and receiving a list of links
> "click here" "click here" etc- Click here to go where? Providing a link
> such as "Fender Electric Guitars" will convey a sense of the destination. As
> far as using the actual URL, they can be as confusing as "click here" For
> example, a URL such as http://154.54.54.33 does not convey much information
> about the target.
>
> Using a description of the link destination or action is a good
> accessibility practice.
>
> Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gareth Dart"< <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:01 AM
> Subject: [WebAIM] Link text best practice
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been on and on at my content authors for the past three years to
>> stop using 'click here' or an URL as text for hyperlinks and instead
>> to use a short phrase which is a description of the content being
>> linked to, the rationale being that this is the friendliest approach
>> to screen readers.
>>
>> Some of them have told me that they've read (no references given)
>> 'somewhere online' that URLs should always be used for link text. I
>> haven't been able to find this anywhere, but wanted to check here too.
>>
>> So, for the avoidance of doubt, what is best practice for link text?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> G
>>
>> Gareth Dart
>> Web Developer
>> Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
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