Accessibility Guideline: Link Purpose
The purpose of each link can be determined from the link text alone or from the link text together with its programmatically determined link context, except where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general (WCAG 2.4.4; A).
Link Text
Links that have just the words “click here” or "see more" create problems for our patrons who use screen readers to navigate our site. Typically, they use the tab key to jump from link to link as their version of skimming the page. When links are labeled vaguely or in a way that requires the user to see the context around it to make sense of the link, it makes that content inaccessible.
Wrong: Click here to read more about website accessibility.
Right: Read more about website accessibility.
When adding links in LibGuides, whenever possible do not add them in the rich text/HTML but rather as link assets and provide a descriptive link name:
