If there is a concise URL you want your students to remember, such as, then of course you can spell that out. If the URL is full of nonsense, as many are, the listener may have no clue where the link goes. That’s like a road sign that shows you GPS coordinates, “39.826416,-83.991958,” when you’re looking for “Wright State University.” When your link text is a URL, a screen reader will read that whole thing. Likewise, don’t make links by just pasting URLs into your text.
(Made from a photo on Flickr by Taber Andrew Bain.) Links that just say “click here” are like highway signs that say “turn here.” They don’t tell you where you’re going. That only works if links is meaningful, not if they are cryptic URLs or say something vague like “click here.” Meaningful LinksĪ link to an organization’s home page, for example, might be the name of the organization, such as “ Wright State University.” A good link to an article about Galileo would likely be the title of the article, such as “ Galileo’s Big Mistake.” A link to the page you are reading right now might say, “ Links in Microsoft Word.”Īvoid links that say vague things like “click here” or “go.” Imagine driving down a highway lined with signs that simply say “turn here” and don’t tell you where you’ll end up if you do turn. They sometimes listen to a list of links on a page to figure out what’s there and where they want to go next. It’s especially nice for screen reader users.
With a good link, you can tell at a glance what you’ll get when you click it. Think of a link as a road sign that tells where you’ll go if you follow it. When you make a link, make it with meaningful text.
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