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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Apr 19, 2013 7:25AM

I'm working on a site being built in WordPress. Posts are displayed in a
pretty normal way:


[LINK] Title of the Article
By [LINK] Author
Extract text about 25 words long [LINK] Read more


The problem is the repeated "Read more" links

The obvious solution is to change them to be the text of the article title,
but the titles are long (mostly 8-10 words). That makes them both visual
and auditory clutter.

I could just remove the links entirely. The position of the link is the
right one: immediately after the information about the article has been
presented.

Putting the title text in a TITLE attribute won't work because most screen
readers ignore it.

Are there any other ideas/tricks for how to customize this link so that it
does not repeat AND does not clutter up a the presentation?


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Whitney Quesenbery
www.wqusability.com | @whitneyq