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)