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the best thing is to give users control rather than making decisions for them. A browser’s standard (default) behaviour is always the most predictable and is what users expect.
That said, it’s perfectly all right to open a link in a new window or tab, as long as you let the user know that that’s what will happen. For instance you can add “Opens in a new window” to the text of the link.
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To jump to a different point on the same webpage. That’s convenient for the visitor, who can skip large parts of the page and go straight to the content they’re interested in.
But take care to not only the visual but the keyboard focus should move to the destination. Modern browsers do this...
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Compare these two ways of linking:
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How do you link to a file to be downloaded such as a PDF, a restaurant menu or a fact sheet, let’s say
Compare these two ways of linking a document:
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The link, these tiny things that we use in many places, in a sentence, as a nav link or even embedded in a call to action; but the common purpose between them are thus clicking a link could:
- Take the user:
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Underlining is the universal pattern for a link. Users get it right away. So use this pattern for links in paragraphs of text.
Links that are obviously links, such in navigation menus, don’t have to be underlined.
Oh, don't forget to read the image 😘
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Screen readers announce the content on a website, so there must be actual content to announce, in the form of text: an “accessible name”, as it is called.
There are several ways to add the accessible name to a link, for example:
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In some cases we want to add an image as a link and to be satisfied with the accessibility's aspect we will add some alt text that will describe our image.
but there is a tiny issue that will face our users that suffering from impaired vision when using a screen reader to read this text out...
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Compare these two sentences:
The first link text is meaningless, you hav...
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To make sure a link will work properly, use an <a> element, with an href containing a url. That way, all devices will know how to operate the link. Keyboard interactions, hover and focus, default styling and feedback
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At first glance, this makes sense. But there is a problem. Browsers still think it’s a link & right clicking it open the context me...
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