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Re: Listing URLs...link the URL text or just the title?

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From: Iain Harrison
Date: Nov 10, 2004 11:12AM

Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 6:02:07 PM, darrel.austin wrote:

> Site C
> http://sitename.com/heres/another/long/url/for/example.html
> Description of Site C

> My hunch is that explicitly writing out the URL as a text link would be a
> pain to have to listen to while using a screen reader, plus, the link itself
> doesn't really say what the page is.

If I wanted to make the full URL visible, what I'd do is <a
href="http://sitename.com/heres/another/long/url/for/example.html"
title="http://sitename.com/heres/another/long/url/for/example.html">Example page at Sitename


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Iain