For January’s Accessibility Focus, we are focusing on how to create accessible links and text.
The articles and videos below go over how to make links and text accessible including errors to avoid and best practices to adopt.
Featured Link and Text Article

A beginner’s guide to link and text accessibility
Learn how to avoid common link and text accessibility errors. Plus, best practices for links and text readability that will help make your content more accessible.
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 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.
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