{"id":3515,"date":"2024-12-11T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/university-communications\/?page_id=3515"},"modified":"2024-12-11T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:30:10","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/university-communications\/web-development-and-experience\/html-tips-and-accessibility\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Meaningful Link Text<\/h2>\n<p>A link&#8217;s text should always describe the content a website visitor will receive when they click on it. Good linking makes a page more friendly for website visitors and search engines.<\/p>\n<p>Links with the <em><strong>same destination URL<\/strong><\/em> should use the <em><strong>same link text<\/strong><\/em>, while links to <em><strong>different URLs<\/strong><\/em> should have <em><strong>different link text<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"\/academics\">Academics<\/a> is a link included within the main footer of every montclair.edu page that links to the main landing page for the Academics section of the 精品成人福利在线 University website.<\/p>\n<p>If your page content includes a link to the same landing page, the link text should be <em>Academics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If your page content includes links to other academics-related pages, the link text should <em>not<\/em> be Academics.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples of Good Link Text<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For more information, review the <a href=\"#\">Graduate School Admissions Checklist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"#\">General Education Requirements<\/a>\u00a0can vary among students in different programs or matriculation years.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"#\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> offers two programs as minors:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Computer Science Minor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Mathematics Minor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Examples of Bad Link Text<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Click here<\/a> to see the Graduate School Admissions Checklist.<\/li>\n<li>View the Graduate School Admissions Checklist <a href=\"#\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>View the Graduate School Admissions Checklist at: <a href=\"#\">http:\/\/montclair.edu\/graduate\/admissions-checklist.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Hidden Text for Accessibility<\/h2>\n<p>The University&#8217;s stylesheet has a <strong>class<\/strong> defined that allows you to create off-screen text. This text will be read aloud to visitors who use screen readers. This can be very handy if you have links immediately under headings that would be very redundant if you included the full context. For example:<\/p>\n<h3>BS in Biology<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/admissions\/\">Apply Now<span class=\"a11y-label\"> for BS in Biology<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/programs\/biology-bs\/\">View Requirements<span class=\"a11y-label\"> for BS in Biology<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>MS in Biology<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/graduate\/\">Apply Now<span class=\"a11y-label\"> for MS in Biology<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/programs\/biology-ms\/\">View Requirements<span class=\"a11y-label\"> for MS in Biology<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n&amp;amp;lt;h3&amp;amp;gt;BS in Biology&amp;amp;lt;\/h3&amp;amp;gt;\r\n&#x5B;button]&amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/admissions\/&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;Apply Now&amp;amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;a11y-label&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt; for BS in Biology&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;gt;&#x5B;\/button]\r\n&#x5B;button]&amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/programs\/biology-bs\/&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;View Requirements&amp;amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;a11y-label&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt; for BS in Biology&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;gt;&#x5B;\/button]\r\n&amp;amp;lt;h3&amp;amp;gt;MS in Biology&amp;amp;lt;\/h3&amp;amp;gt;\r\n&#x5B;button]&amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/graduate\/&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;Apply Now&amp;amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;a11y-label&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt; for MS in Biology&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;gt;&#x5B;\/button]\r\n&#x5B;button]&amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http:\/\/catalog.montclair.edu\/programs\/biology-ms\/&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;View Requirements&amp;amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;a11y-label&amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt; for MS in Biology&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;\/a&amp;amp;gt;&#x5B;\/button]\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>When to Open in a New Tab<\/h2>\n<h3>Linking to other montclair.edu pages<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Avoid absolute URLs to content on montclair.edu.<\/strong> URLs that begin with &#8220;http:\/\/&#8221; or &#8220;https:\/\/&#8221; are absolute URLs. By using an absolute URL, you choose for the user whether they&#8217;re going to get an unencrypted page (http) or an encrypted page (https). It&#8217;s best to allow visitors to choose and to honor that choice. When you link to another page on the 精品成人福利在线 website, try to make sure you use a <em>root-relative <\/em>URL instead. For example, instead of <strong>http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/admissions<\/strong> use <strong>\/admissions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Linked montclair.edu content should generally open within the same tab.<\/strong> This replaces the current page&#8217;s content with the new linked page&#8217;s content. To do this, when linking to another page on the 精品成人福利在线 University website, make sure <strong>target<\/strong> is not set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Linking to pages on websites other than montclair.edu<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Linked external content should open in a new tab.<\/strong> When linking to another website, set the link&#8217;s <strong>target<\/strong> attribute to <strong>_blank<\/strong> &#8211; this will open the link in a new tab. This helps communicate to users that they&#8217;ve left the 精品成人福利在线 website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Note: For the purposes of this document, &#8220;another website&#8221; is anything not on <strong>montclair.edu<\/strong>. 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