From the course: Foundations of Accessible Elearning
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Using real text links
From the course: Foundations of Accessible Elearning
Using real text links
- [Instructor] Another quick and easy win for accessibility is using real text links, which means that the text representing the link, lets someone know what the link is for. This is especially important for someone who's unable to see, and doesn't know the context of the link. The screen reader will let the person know what the link says. Let's take a look at why this is important. Here, I'm inside of this webpage that we created, again. And I just want to navigate over these links. Now, all of these will take you to the same place, Water Testing Data, if I click there, it brings us to that spreadsheet. Now, all of these will, but there is a difference. When I use the screen reader notice what is said when I go over this link, which is a real text link, it says, "Water Testing Data." The one below that isn't and notice there what the screen reader will say. And I do want you to listen to it, so you know what some people…
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