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Visual Queues: Every link needs two visual queues to make them accessible. A visual queue will help the link stand out from the surrounding text. The best visual queues you can use are underlining the link, and changing the text color. In most cases, a link’s text will turn blue for you. To underline the link, highlight your text, go up to the menu at the top of the page. Click the More Formatting button, then click Underline.
Avoid URLs, use words instead: A common mistake that is made when creating links is to only use URLs. While URLs do tell readers where the link will go when clicked, they are not accessible for students who use screen readers. If a student using a screen reader tried reading a URL, it will be read one letter, number, or character at a time. This is very time consuming and does not help anyone with learning what the link is. To fix this issue, we will move away from using URLs and create “Descriptive Links.” These types of links will describe what the link is with meaningful text. For videos, and other special links, Answers will give you four different link sizes to choose from. Please only click on the smallest link size, which is text based. The other link sizes will not pass accessibility checkers, so we need to avoid them.
To make your link descriptive, place your link in the article.
Click on the link and click Edit Link. In Display Text, type in a description of your link.
Click Save.
Context: If you are using full URLs as a way of providing examples in your articles, be sure they are unlinked. That way they will be read as normal text. In general, I always recommend keeping the use of URLs to a minimum for the purpose of keeping the content simple and easy to read. With this in mind, all of the links on your page should be descriptive links with examples being an exception. It does not matter if the link is for an email address, a webpage, or a source.
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