Don't use "click here" for link text
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Don't use "click here" for link text
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#2Norman Nielsen Group makes similar arguments against "learn more" (and suggested that "learn more" is the new "click here"): https://www.nngroup.com/articles/learn-more-links/
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#3Nice. Anyone have a list of these single issue PSA static sites?
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#5However, the alternatives suggested are harder to translate.
The need for the link text to say the action or name of destination of the link, and to grammatically fit within the sentence, makes translation tricky.
Poorly translated sites are hard to use for the majority of the world for whom English is not a first language, and overall this effect might outweigh the benefits of descriptive link text.
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#6Even worse is to do both, e.g. click here to [reset your password]
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#7At this point I'm just happy if hyperlinks are a different color
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#8I dunno, seems pretty clear to me and it’s a super common approach.
Is this science or just kind of a style question?
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#9Missing a great source of humour to have the Hacker News headline link "click here"
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#10I would argue you can't win either way...
If you use real link, your training people to trust what the text says is actually where you're going to go..
By making people do extra work to see where click here goes you might actually be training to protect themselves... Of course that doesn't work when Outlook goes and wraps the whole thing in a safety URL you can't see past... Or with shorteners.. but in all of those cases, I know to be more cautious.