Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/21/06 13:55

David Segall wrote:
> I recently had a 100% failure rate with the two visitors who wanted to
> look at some notes that were linked to a web page but did not know how
> to do it. The link says Click _here_. It is followed by the usual
> advice on getting the Adobe Acrobat Reader and both did that although
> they probably already had it. If you want to see the actual page the
> relevant bit is at the bottom of <http://shirley.profectus.com.au>.
>
> Should I have used more contrast for the word "here" and/or made the
> link text longer? Should I have created a button for the link and, if
> so, would "here" be a sufficient label for the button? Other ideas?

Contrast would go along way. Using 'here' for the link is rather bad
practice, far better to put a real description withing the link text:


<a href="http://profectus.com.au/text/PortraitNotes.pdf">Shirley's
notes</a> are mainly reminiscences about the Segall family (PDF 342KB).

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Take care,

Jonathan
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