Web Development
Web Developer Guidelines
Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 9.8 - Core

All navigation is text based

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

WCAG Guideline 13. Provide clear navigation mechanisms.

Textual hyperlinks allow users to resize the fonts for better visibility and enable non-browser technologies to utilize the links when presenting web page information to its users.

Requirement

All navigation must be text based.

Recommendation

Use CSS to style text-based links for the desired visual appearance.

Checking Tool

View the page in a browser to ensure that all links are text-based and are not images.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-meaningful-links)

 

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