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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 19, 2014 4:36PM

On 17/10/2014 19:14, Ed Eckenstein wrote:
> This question concerns links in a research paper. Accessibility best
> practices are to give links meaningful labels and not just use the URL
> as a label. However APA format dictates citing the URL as in:
>
> Burgstahler, S. (n.d.). /Universal Design of Instruction (UDI):
> Definition, Principles, Guidelines, and Examples/. Retrieved from The
> University of Washington:
> http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/instruction.html

Does anything in the APA format explicitly forbid making the entire
reference (including "Burgstahler...") an actual link? This would still
allow for a slightly more contextual link text (bonus points for using
styling that suppresses the underline on the non-URL part but makes it
return on focus/hover).

P
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