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Hyperlinks

A hyperlink is a piece of text or an image that links to a file, email address or web page. A text hyperlink is conventionally indicated by appearing in blue and underlined.

In line with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – our hyperlinks are formatted to help 'clearly identify the target of each link' in the following ways;

Appropriate Link Text

This is the text that appears in the link itself and should as a rule reflect the name of the item being linked to.

Tool Tips

Where deemed necessary – we use something called a ‘title attribute’ to provide extra or more descriptive information that is not present in the Link Text. This information appears in most browsers as a tool tip on mouse over.

This can be important for menu links that are conventionally kept short. For example a link to “About Us” may have a tooltip of “About Central Borders Housing Group”

Icons

Some hyperlinks on our website are accompanied by a graphical icon to help indicate their purpose.

A link to an internal PDF file:
Link to an Adobe Acrobat fileDirections to our office

A link to an email address:
Email link

A link to a web page on the World Wide Web - the icon to the right indicates an external link (outside of our website):
Link to a web page (external link)www.pwc.com

A link that opens in a new window:
South Staffordshire Housing AssociationNew window