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Making hypertext links accessible is crucial for creating web pages and documents that are accessible to everyone. This includes users with disabilities who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers. Thankfully, there are some simple guidelines that can be followed to ensure that links are accessible and easy to navigate for all users.
Overall Guidelines:
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The use of meaningful text for links is beneficial to all users by making the ability to quickly navigate documents even easier. The text in a link should be describing where the link will go. This should make sense if read out of context from the remaining text. This is important because people who use screen readers can have the software reading only links on webpages. With that in mind, do Do not use the following phrases as link text due to them not making sense without context:
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2. No Capitalized Letters
A kink link text with capital letters is harder for users to read, but people with reading disabilities struggle even more. Additionally, screen readers may read the capitalized letters one by one instead of part of the word, which . This will be difficult to understand.
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Hypertext URLs (like https://www.fredonia.edu/about/offices/information-technology-services) should not be used. Screen readers will only read the URL as individual letters and would be very difficult to understand as well as time consuming. Short URLs can be used but only if the point is to saw show what the URL is, like for a website homepage (like www.fredonia.edu). However, this sort of link is unnecessary and is better to have more readable link text like Fredonia Homepage website.
4. Avoid using the word “link” as part of the link text
Users are usually given information that text has been hyperlinked, so do not add . So adding the word “link” to the start or end of the hypertext linka link text is not needed. For example, the Fredonia Homepage would be read by most screen readers as “Link Homepage State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia).Fredonia Homepage.”
5. Do not use tooltips or screen tips to add more information
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