CS 103 Link Text Examples

This page contains one example of good link text and five examples of link text that could be improved. Transform the five poor examples into five sentences with concise, readable link text that can be understood out of context (such as in an alphabetical set of links produced by a screen reader) and accurately represent the destination of the link.

To fix the poor link text, download this file to your own computer, and use a text editor to change the link text (move the hyperlink to a different set of words in the sentence). Alternatively, you may change the text of these sentences if you prefer, as long as the results are still complete sentences and the meaning is unchanged.

1. The W3C's "Recommended Doctype Declarations", it gives valid DOCTYPE declarations examples if you are working with different versions of HTML.
2. In "On Alt Text", legendary web designer Jeffrey Zeldman makes the case for using a null alt attribute in some cases to improve the experience for screen reader users.
3. Wikipedia does use a Creative Commons license! To see yourself, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License".
4. If you need help with learning how alt text contributes to the findability of a web page the youtube video "Matt Cutts Discusses the Importance of <alt> Tags" helps you to understand why.
5. In "The Democratization of Censorship," Brian Krebs writes about the largest DDoS attack in history.
6. In the article "Facebook privacy tips: How to share without oversharing" it discusses how to protect your online existence from sharing personal information with strangers.