Re: Learn more, Read more, More

William Hudson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
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Hal -

> You're designing a Web page, and there's a list of articles, each
> with the first sentence of the article as a tease. That sentence ends
> with a link to get to the full article. What should that link text be?

Gawry makes a good point regarding accessibility. The page needs to make
sense to someone relying on a screen reader. It is possible to instruct
most screen readers just to read out the links on the page (or, as Gawry
mentioned, to tab between them). In either case, links that just read
'more' are useless in that situation.

The best solution that addresses this is to make the tease text the
link. I wouldn't underline it if there is a lot of it in close
proximity, because that will reduce legibility. Use a 'jump' bullet
instead (something that visually hints at the presence of a link).

Regards,

William Hudson
Syntagm Ltd
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