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Dear accessibility experts,

What advice do you have on citations with URLs? Most style guides say to write them out (as in the attached photo), but the accessibility plug-in on our website is throwing an error, and I can see how the URLs would be annoying to people who use screen readers.

I’d love to hear how others handle it!

#AmEditing #accessibility #AcademicWriting

#accessibility #AmEditing #AcademicWriting
in reply to Mignon Fogarty

nebunez
nebunez
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There is a proper 'citation' HTML element that I *believe* screen readers will handle properly.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/cite


: The Citation element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The HTML element is used to mark up the title of a cited creative work. The reference may be in an abbreviated form according to context-appropriate conventions related to citation metadata.
developer.mozilla.org

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