Hyperlinks & Interactive Content Overview
Hyperlinks & Interactive Content Overview
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Meaningful Link Text
Make your document accessible by using descriptive anchor text for your hyperlinks.
MS Word refers to the anchor text of a link as "Address".
Link text should be unique within a page, should be meaningful when read out of context, and should help users to know something about their destination if they click on it. Link text such as “Click here” and “More” fail to meet these criteria. Consider the various ways users interact with links:
- Screen reader users can generate a list of links and navigate them alphabetically. Redundant or ambiguous link text such as “More” is meaningless in this context.
- Users of speech recognition technology can select a link with a voice command like “click” followed by the link text. Therefore it is also helpful to use unique link text that is short and easy to say.
Your Students' Perspective
Watch this video to see how screen-readers read inaccessible and accessible links in Microsoft Word.
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
- Identify inaccessible URLs.
- Reconstruct uninformative URL links to create meaningful links.