Links and text make up online content, so it’s important to make them accessible and readable. There are simple tips for writing accessible links and content that can make your content more readable and skimmable for all your users.
The articles and videos below review how to make links and text accessible including errors to avoid and best practices to adopt.
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Featured Link and Text Articles
A beginner’s guide to link accessibility
Learn how to avoid common link accessibility errors. Plus, best practices for links that will help make your content more accessible.
A beginner’s guide to accessible text
Learn how to write and format more readable text. Plus, how to avoid common text accessibility issues.
How to make external links accessible
Learn best practices for external links and how to style them so they’re accessible.
Featured Link and Text Videos
Write more accessible link text
Learn what ambiguous links are, how they affect accessibility, and how to write more descriptive links.
Why redundant links can be an accessibility issue and how to fix them
Learn what redundant links are, why they can be an accessibility issue, and how to fix them.
Tips for formatting more readable and accessible text
Learn how to make your text more readable for everyone and more accessible for people with disabilities with easy to implement formatting tips.
Tips for writing more readable and accessible text
Learn how to make your text more readable for everyone and more accessible for people with disabilities with easy to implement writing tips.
More Link Articles
Links and Hypertext
An introduction to links and hypertext including how keyboards and screen readers work with links.
External Links, New Tabs, and Accessibility
A discussion on if links opening in a new tab is a good idea followed by code examples to improve the accessibility of these links.
More Text Readability Articles
Text/Typographical Layout
Learn how alignment, margin, white space, line length, and text decoration affect readability and accessibility.
Typefaces and Fonts
An introduction on typefaces and fonts. Plus, how they effect readability and accessibility.
Legibility, Readability, and Comprehension: Making Users Read Your Words
Learn how to write clearly and simply so users are more likely to read your content, and how to test your writing’s readability.
Link and Text Result Documentation
These are the WAVE results associated with links and text. WAVE is a free tool you can use to check a page for accessibility issues.
Empty button
What an empty button error is and how to fix it.
Empty link
What an empty link error is and how to fix it.
Marquee
What a marquee error is and why you should avoid using the marquee element.
Broken same-page link
What a broken same-page link result is and how to fix it.
Suspicious link text
What suspicious link text is and why descriptive links matter.
Redundant links
What redundant links are and how to fix them.
Underlined text
Why underlined text is confusing and alternatives for emphasizing text.
Very small text
Accessible text sizes and why very small text is an issue.
Justified text
Why justified text is a readability issue and alternatives.
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