{"id":519,"date":"2011-12-14T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-12-14T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:02:25","slug":"beginner-web-tip-1-12142011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Beginner Web Tip #1, 12\/14\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Beginner Tip #1 &#8211; Descriptive Link Text<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong> Beginner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Category:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Content<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Presentation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Screen reader users often navigate a page by reading only<br \/>\nthe links. The link text (typically blue, underlined text) is read. The function<br \/>\nof the link should be available from the link text itself. Ambiguous links, such<br \/>\nas &#8220;click here&#8221;, &#8220;more&#8221;, etc. do not provide useful information to these users.<br \/>\nThe user must navigate or read the link&#8217;s surrounding context to determine what<br \/>\nthey link does or where it goes. These ambiguous links should be avoided and can<br \/>\nalmost always be made clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Example:<\/strong><br \/>\nChange &#8220;To perform a search,<\/span> <a title=\"Google Search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/#.com\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8221; to &#8220;<\/span><a title=\"Google Search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/#.com\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Perform a search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=519\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginner Tip #1 &#8211; Descriptive Link Text Difficulty: Beginner Category: Content Presentation Screen reader users often navigate a page by reading only the links. The link text (typically blue, underlined text) is read. The function of the link should be available from the link text itself. Ambiguous links, such as &#8220;click here&#8221;, &#8220;more&#8221;, etc. do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}