Accessibility Required

Say where each link goes

Write link text that says where the link goes. Never write "click here" or "read more". This meets WCAG criterion 2.4.4 (A).

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 20 October 2026.

How to do it

Name the destination in the link ("Pricing for teams"). If the label must be short, add context with visually hidden text.

Example

<a href="/pricing/teams">Pricing for teams</a>
<a href="/guides/backups">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about backups</span></a>

.visually-hidden {
  position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;
  clip-path: inset(50%); white-space: nowrap;
}

How to check

Lighthouse link-text passes. A test fails on any link whose accessible name is only "click here", "here", "more" or "read more".

Measured

On a reference site, renaming two footer links "Click here" and "Read more" took Lighthouse SEO from 92 to 85.

For agents: if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in Based on the Agent Wranglers website playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/website/accessibility/link-text.