Re: CHI-WEB Digest - 12 Jun 2007 to 13 Jun 2007 (#2007-43)
Claudia Alden Case <[email protected]>
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"Learn more" isn't a good solution for a couple reasons...it makes the page harder to scan when there are lots of links with the same label, and it doesn't work well from an ADA standpoint (e.g., if someone is using adaptive technology to browse the web and their equipment reads the links to them). I suggest making the title of the article or the beginning of the first sentence the link. If you browse any of the most popular news sites you can see samples of this. (http://cnn.com, for example) c -----Original Message----- From: ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors (Open Discussion) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CHI-WEB automatic digest system Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CHI-WEB Digest - 12 Jun 2007 to 13 Jun 2007 (#2007-43) There is 1 message totalling 33 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Learn more, Read more, More -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Forward out-of-office replies to mailto:[email protected] CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/web POSTINGS: mailto:[email protected] MODERATORS: mailto:[email protected] SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES & FAQ: www.sigchi.org/web/faq.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:03:44 -0400 From: Hal Shubin <[email protected]> Subject: Learn more, Read more, More 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? I recall reading that "Learn more" isn't good, because people don't always want to be taught something. (I tried a search on that, but "learn" is a common word and I didn't have luck.) Anyone have any advice, data or good guesses? thanks -- hs -- -- -- -- -- Hal Shubin 617 489 6595 www.user.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Forward out-of-office replies to mailto:[email protected] CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/web POSTINGS: mailto:[email protected] MODERATORS: mailto:[email protected] SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES & FAQ: www.sigchi.org/web/faq.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of CHI-WEB Digest - 12 Jun 2007 to 13 Jun 2007 (#2007-43) ************************************************************* -------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Day: Postings must be in plain text CHI-WEB: www.sigchi.org/web POSTINGS: mailto:[email protected] MODERATORS: mailto:[email protected] SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES & FAQ: www.sigchi.org/web/faq.html --------------------------------------------------------------