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What is link accessibility?
While screen readers can read a full page to a user, screen reader users may prefer to instead listen to a list of links. In that case, a screen reader may only read the link text and not the surrounding text. Users can speak the text of the link that they would like to follow.
How do I make a link accessible?
How to edit link text
- Right click on the hyperlink.
- Click Link/Edit Link (if using a Mac you then need to select Link then Edit Link…) Windows. Mac.
- Change the Display text: (or Text to display) to something more descriptive. For this example “Postgraduate course guides”.
- Click OK and you will end up with something like:
How do screen readers read hyperlinks?
Most screen readers say “link” before each link. For example, a “products” link would be read as “link products” by JAWS. Implication: Links do not need to include “link” in the link text, because all users already know that the link is a link.
When would you use a link button?
There are differences as to when a button should be used rather than a link. UX Movement wrote an article about this, and they came up with a simple rule: Buttons are used for actions that affect the website’s front-end or back-end; links are used for navigation and actions that don’t affect the website at all.
What does it mean to have a self descriptive link?
Descriptive hyperlinks are weblinks disguised as descriptive text where clicking on the link will take the user. When using a screen reader, it would read every letter and dash of the URL and when you use descriptive text, it is easy for the user to navigate.
In order for a link to be readable by screen reader users links must all contain either plain text, or in the case of a linked image, alt text describing where the link goes. If the linked image contains text, a good general rule is to make the alt text the same, or similar to the text in the image.
Why do I get an error when I Click on a hyperlink?
For more information, see Error message when clicking hyperlink in Office: “Cannot locate the Internet server or proxy server”.
What to do if your GP is inaccessible?
Alternatively login with a brand new user account setup as an Enterprise/Domain admin/other administrative group which does still have access to the GP, then open GP Management and reset the permissions for the users which get the “Inaccessible” error.
What happens when you click a hyperlink to SSO web site?
Regardless of the version of Office that you have installed, add the registry key in the exact location that’s specified in Error message when clicking hyperlink in Office: “Cannot locate the Internet server or proxy server”.