Re: Link text

> Some years ago, someone clever made recommendations about link text and text
> on the target pages. The goal was that users should understand the link text
> and have a good idea of where it would take them.

Hi Hal,

It's also a big accessibility thing.  The Web Accessibility Guidelines
have a checkpoint:

<.snip>

Guideline 13.  Provide clear navigation mechanisms.

13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link. [Priority 2]
 Link text should be meaningful enough to make sense when read out of
context -- either on its own or as part of a sequence of links. Link
text should also be terse.

For example, in HTML, write "Information about version 4.3" instead of
"click here". In addition to clear link text, content developers may
further clarify the target of a link with an informative link title
(e.g., in HTML, the "title" attribute).

<./snip>

Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

The reasoning behind it is that many users of screen readers navigate
through a page by jumping between hyperlinks so if the link text is
out of context like click here the user has no idea what will happen
when then they click the proverbial here

joe

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