Re:Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C
by account42 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:53AM
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It feels like the screen reader industry has somehow managed to bully the entire web into making things easy for them instead of improving their own software.
Re:Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C
by kulahan on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:56PM
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Good. The web industry needs a lot MORE bullies forcing developers to build things in more predictable ways.
Besides, AMP is the almighty master of this practice, and they’re not trying to help disabled people, they’re trying to control the internet.
Re:Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C
by sn0wleppard on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:14AM
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It's a travesty how much "Freedom" Scientific charges for a developer JAWS licence
Yes, exactly, if ARIA tags haven't been provided. It's not exactly rocket science to have some heuristics that check if a link is solely "click", "click here", etc., and it reads the entire sentence if that's the case. Seems like it would work 99+% of the time with exceedingly little effort.
There's no expectation, and should be no expectation, that the function of a link should be derivable directly from the text it encloses.