WCAG Compliant Text for External Link

  • Resolved ChillyJava

    (@chillyjava)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    I do have a follow-up question that’s similar to the issue Vanderbeam started (but resolved) – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/external-link-text-for-screen-readers/

    The {title} doesn’t qualify as an option for WCAG compliance. However, Vanderbeam’s code does address the compliance – as it avoids using the title attribute (which WordPress and Accessibility guidelines recommend).

    Since WordPress’ core CSS has the class .screen-reader-text it could be:
    <span class=”screen-reader-text”> (opens in new tab)</span>

    This wording avoids repeating “Link” that the screen reader already indicated.

    Could this option be added to the plugin to meet WCAG

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  • @chillyjava well our plugin is not intended to make the links WCAG compliant. We just go through the links that are already there and add the nofollow, noopener and new window stuff… We do this in realtime. We never touch the database.

    Anyway I’m going to send this suggestion to the dev team for them to analyse.

    Thread Starter ChillyJava

    (@chillyjava)

    @manuelrocha88 – Another option would be to use the aria-label rather than the title attribute — that would also help to meet WCAG compliance and be a great feature of the plugin.

    @chillyjava I will pass this suggestion to the dev team, but as far as I have already checked with them, they got a good point that this plugin is not intended to make the website WCAG compliance… This is just a plugin to add target and nofollow and noopener attributes and nothing more than that. But I will give communicate this suggestion to them anyway

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