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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 19, 2013 2:18PM

Hi

If there is a single email link on the page, and it is consistent with
the page content (i.e. if this is the pageof the art department, for
instance) a descriptive text of "email us" or "send us an email" is
fully ufficient.
If there are multiple email addresses on a single page, use a more
descriptive name, department, employee name or some other unique
identification of the email target.
Screen readers generally offer users shortcut keys to find email
address links " is the shortcut key with Jaws" and they read email
addresses just fine as long as they consist of actual words, sepaated
by a dot "." or with upper case
<EMAIL REMOVED>
Cheers
-B

On 2/19/13, Bryan Bowers < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> What is the accessible/usable best practices for email links on web pages?
> We currently link the word, "Email" but this is not very informative.
> <a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ">Email</a>
>
> Should we use descriptive text:
>
> <a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ">Email Art Department</a>
> or the full email address as the link:
> <a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> "> <EMAIL REMOVED> </a>
> --
> I've read that screen readers have a difficult time reading aloud an email
> address .
> Thanks for your feedback in advance.
> > > >