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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Oct 20, 2014 2:44PM

Yes.
Link the URL, not the citation text. That's what readers of scientific
material expect.
Good luck with your class.

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Link labels and APA citations

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.