Re: Introducing a new blog! Read the post for more information.
Since this topic was brought up again, what's the big deal about click here links? If it's a security issue, just hit your applications key, copy the link's location, open a text editor, and inspect it. Sure, that might be a few extra steps, but you can never be too cautious nowadays. Maybe if people would do this more often, rather than blindly following a breadcrumb trail wherever it takes them, we'd have fewer malware and ransomware infections.
I'm sorry, for some reason the fact that click here, which I've seen on pretty much every website under the sun to some degree or another since about 1999 when I began using computers, was flagged as an accessibility issue, struck me as hilarious. In 1999, I was 10, and I did follow pretty much any link, including all kinds of shady ads, which I immediately regretted, not least because my parents would blame me for the stuff that would inevitably pop up on the screen after such adventures. Especially on a blog, isn't the point to read the content? Who just scrolls through links on a blog, unless they're looking for something specific, which they would have known about on a previous visit? I seriously do not understand this logic at all. I might not have come down so hard on it had it not been flagged specifically as an accessibility issue. From a usability standpoint, it's what I would classify as a minor annoyance, but really? An accessibility issue would be something like an auto refreshing page, unlabelled graphics, links that are unable to be activated by a screen reader, etc. But definitely not something as mundane as a phrase that has been used all over the internet since its inception.
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