Comments on: Defining Links in Web Documents http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/12/15/defining-links-in-web-documents/ Am I a finished product -- or a work in progress? Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:13:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aleksey Gureev http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/12/15/defining-links-in-web-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Aleksey Gureev Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:26:47 +0000 http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/12/15/defining-links-in-web-documents/#comment-300 Yes, totally valid point. Also I was thinking about text browsers with a list of links below or above the page given as a summary. There are still tricky situations out there, like when you have a page where you give several links to various RSS feeds. It's obviously better to name such links as "RSS" (not "click" I mean), but they will be all the same "RSS, RSS, RSS ...". The "title" attribute can do the trick I hope without adding extra visual weight to the document. Yes, totally valid point. Also I was thinking about text browsers with a list of links below or above the page given as a summary.

There are still tricky situations out there, like when you have a page where you give several links to various RSS feeds. It’s obviously better to name such links as “RSS” (not “click” I mean), but they will be all the same “RSS, RSS, RSS …”. The “title” attribute can do the trick I hope without adding extra visual weight to the document.

]]> By: Kevin Yank http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/12/15/defining-links-in-web-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Kevin Yank Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:50:08 +0000 http://blog.noizeramp.com/2005/12/15/defining-links-in-web-documents/#comment-299 This is also an important issue for Web accessibility. That's why it's covered in the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0): http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text For screen reader users, the text within hyperlinks is very important, because these users often navigate using a list of links of the page. With links like your first example, the list will sound like this: "Click, click here, click, ..." With links like your second example, the list is more useful: "downloads page, Java API refernce, email me". This is also an important issue for Web accessibility. That’s why it’s covered in the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0):

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text

For screen reader users, the text within hyperlinks is very important, because these users often navigate using a list of links of the page. With links like your first example, the list will sound like this: “Click, click here, click, …” With links like your second example, the list is more useful: “downloads page, Java API refernce, email me”.

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