Click here to read Aug03 '05

I really despise the phrase "click here," used on a web site.

It is like scratching fingernails on a chalk board. Just the sound of the phrase makes me cringe.

In my own development work, I try to avoid using it, at all costs.

However, some links or images are not obvious enough to the user, who (for the sake of this line of work) should be considered the most unintelligent, incapable, and laziest person using the web. In fact, we are all that person. So, web sites must treat every visitor as if they were their first, and their last.

This promotes the "click here" mentality.

I wish there was a way around it, but I’m afraid there is not.

Categories: Accessibility , Web Sites

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I am forced to use this alot on dccc.edu. I think its the wrong way to approach linking to whatever on the site but unfortunately we have a high v ... Read more.

matthom is published and produced by Matt Thommes - an independent publishing enthusiast, mobile blogger, content creator, informative writer, web developer from Chicago. Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.