Ask HN: Are inline links or a reference section better for accessibility?

2 pointsanderspitman4 comments

For those who are visually impaired, it seems like inline links (especially long ones) could create a lot of noise. Is it better to put them at the end of an article/page and use some sort of reference system. Is there a standard way of doing that?

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I prefer inline. References at the end break my concentration. You're not writing academic papers so you're free to do what makes sense for you.

Are you using plain text/screen reader, or rendered content?

Rendered. But if I'm writing/reading my own RestructuredText, I just put the link in a line of their own within the paragraph.

I generally write a sentence per line in rst, and break lines on commas. It's good for version control.

I like the way Wikipedia does it. Inline links to go to a new page but in page links to represent footnotes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

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