Click here is not a good link text

Linking text in the form of "… see here", "… available here", or worst of all, "… click here" is a really bad habit which leads to all sorts of accessibility problems, with users of screen readers probably suffering the worst of it.

The number 1 rule of thumb to good links is that they should make sense out of context. That is, they should still make sense when read aloud without the surrounding text.

Here’s some resources explaining this topic:

• Don’t use “click here” by Mark Caron.
• Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” on Smashing Magazine.
• Designing Better Links for Websites and Emails by Slava Shestopalov.

More prescriptive guidelines can also be found at:

• Link best practices on the MDN Web Docs.
• Links and Hypertext on web accessibility in mind.
• What’s wrong with using “Click Here” links? on Berkeley Web Access
• Don’t use “click here” as link text on the W3C QA Tips for Webmasters.