That's the way it always has been done.
I have found it to be the case that many best practice fallbacks like
this come from the early days of web/app design. Because it was a new
experience for everyone, a lot was dumbed down. I would not jump to
the conclusion that designers are the ones
Click here links are neither usable nor accessible, for various
reasons.
Because click here has some interesting properties (e.g. it
almost ALWAYS appears within links and hardly ever in ordinary text),
I think you can use it as an indicator of some systemic issues within
an organization.
See
I've run a lot of usability tests and I'm puzzled as to why some
designers still use 'click here to' as a link with the subject of the
action following the link.
Does anyone have any anecdotal or hard evidence supporting why this is
a good thing to do?
If not, what problems have you seen
Ron,
This will be a great head start for you:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/28/designing-read-more-and-continue-reading-links/
(make sure you check out the comments below the article - quite a few
insights in there)
Suze Ingram
User Experience Consultant
suze.ingramat gmail.com
There are a number of reasons, actually, and I think attributing them
to some designers is a bit on the flawed side.
Click here resolves to Adobe as the most popular search result in
Google, btw:
http://www.google.com/search?q=click
heresourceid=navclient-ffie=UTF-8rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS311US311
But,
A slightly different case, but nice writeup suggesting that here at
the end of a link works better than not:
http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html
Josh
On Aug 10, 2009, at 6:44 AM, Russ Unger wrote:
There are a number of reasons, actually, and I think attributing
In web applications, I've seen click here used often to overcome
other design problems within the page, including:
* Links using non-obvious colors or no underlines
* Links buried in massive blocks of marketing copy
The click here is sometimes added after observing users who tell
the
It's also an accessibility problem, too. If someone is using a
screen reader, a site with Click here to see latest news, Click
here to browse jobs, Click here to download our annual report,
and Click here to sign in will be mind-numbing at best.
Even worse is when there is no actual descriptive
I wish I still had the link, but a while back someone did a study on
this and found that most users actually *do* click on things that say
Click here more often than links that do not use that verbiage.
Hopefully someone here can chime in with that study.
Nick
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Even when the links were treated visually as discrete, actionable links?
I'd like to see that study, too -- I'd bet that many of those links
were buried in paragraphs of text, and that users were scanning madly
for something actionable.
(IMO, click here is something that should be weeded out of
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