- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:15:54 -0400
- To: "Patrick Burke" <burke@ucla.edu>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
amen to that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Burke" <burke@ucla.edu> To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: Re: Click here 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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