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Are your Anchor Links Accessible?
- Amber Wilson describes the HTML structure she came up with for turning headings into ‘linkable headings’, whose links can be used as anchor links to that specific part of the page. It can be tricky to implement these without making it a noisy or confusing experience for screen reader users. Here is the markup she ended up with:
<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2><a href="#introduction"><span aria-hidden="true">#</span><span class="hidden">Section titled introduction</span></a>- You could also wrap your link inside your heading, which is simpler but arguably has usability issues (e.g. makes it harder to select heading text):
<h2 id="introduction"><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
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