{"id":1745,"date":"2013-04-24T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2013-04-24T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:06:23","slug":"descriptive-link-text-web-tip-7-42413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"Descriptive Link Text, Web Tip #7, 4\/24\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Descriptive Link Text<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Beginner<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 not provide useful information to these users. The user must navigate or read the link&#8217;s surrounding context to determine what they link does or where it goes. These ambiguous links should be avoided and can almost always be made clearer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Example:<\/b><br \/>\nChange &#8220;To perform a search, <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\">click here<\/a>&#8221; to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\">Perform a search<\/a>&#8220;.<\/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=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1745\" 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>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 not provide useful information [&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":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}