Re: Click here

• From: Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu>
• Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:31:13 -0700
• To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
• Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020809100539.02073a58@pop.ucla.edu>

At 02:26 AM 8/9/2002, David Dorward wrote:
> > It's a bad habit of some coworkers who don't want to think about link
> > text so they always use "click here".  I need truly excellent reasons
> > to show them the light.
It's just lazy writing, isn't it? It uses a stock phrase instead of 
describing why a person should follow the link, or what will happen if they 
do. Any good copy editor would veto it, at least on most worlds in this 
star cluster.

But I give "click here" points for brevity over phrases like "activate this 
hypertext anchor".

Patrick

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