Why? Because:
a) not everyone uses a mouse
b) people using screen-readers won’t get the benefit of knowing where the blessed link is going.
A thread!
I’m just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking you, for the love of goodness to stop using ‘Click here’ to embed your links: it’s inaccessible. 🧵 (1)
— Emily Smith (@Em1lySm) April 20, 2022
A benefit of descriptive links is that screenreader users can pull all the links on a page together into a list and find what they need. ‘Click here’ doesn’t describe where you are linking to and means nothing without textual context! (2)
— Emily Smith (@Em1lySm) April 20, 2022
Eg. Instead of “Our school has X many students and does Y and Z. For more information, *click here*” to link to your About Us page, use: “Our school has X many students and does Y and Z. Read more *About Us*” (3)
— Emily Smith (@Em1lySm) April 20, 2022
Ps. If you do this you will not only make life easier for people who use screen readers but you also have a really simple way to improve your Search Engine Optimisation. Nobody Googles “Click here.” (4)
— Emily Smith (@Em1lySm) April 20, 2022