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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: Ed Eckenstein
Date: Oct 20, 2014 2:36PM

This is my first post to the list and I do appreciate all the
information and thoughts everyone has shared. I was thinking of Word
specifically. I'm developing a Word accessibility module as an exercise
for a class I'm taking. I was testing it with other students when the
question of APA citations came up.

HTML certainly has many more ways to accomplish this but Word is so
limited. Seem like based on the ideas brought forth so far the choice is
either to hyperlink the citation title and not link the actual URL or
just use the URL as the hyperlink text for the hyperlink. Right now I'm
leaning towards following APA format and using the URL itself as the
link text. The purpose and destination of the link would be available
from the surrounding citation text. Not ideal as the citation is not
programmatically linked to the hyperlink. Does this seem like a
reasonable compromise?

Thank to all for the great information shared.