QA Tip: Don't Click Here

[Hal Goodtree]

I recently blogged about this QA tip:

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere

In a nutshell, most of the advice offered is sound, but the blanket admonition to avoid using verbs as links may have changed since this QA Tip was written. Here’s the full post:

http://online-copywriter.com/wordpress/2007/03/20/dont-click-here-avoid-verbs/

Please let me know if I could provide further information or be of any assistance.

Best regards,

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Hal Goodtree
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[Tim Boland]

In the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Techniques [1],

Example 2 of Technique H20 [2] (Identifying the purpose of a link using link text and text associated with the parent element of the link) provides the "command" form of the verb "to consult".

Example 4 of Technique H30 [3] (providing link text that describes the purpose of a link for anchor elements) provides the "command" form of the verb "to go" .

Example 2 of Technique H33 [4] (supplementing link text with the title attribute)  provides the
"command" form of the verb "to subscribe".

There may be additional information in [1] relevant or helpful to this discussion.

Are the examples referenced previously consistent with current practice, or do they need to be updated to reflect current practice?

Thanks and best wishes
Tim Boland NIST

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/
[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H20
[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H30
[4]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H33