Link Purpose

A WCAG 2.4.4 Level A success criterion requiring that the purpose of each link be determinable from the link text alone, or from the link text together with its programmatically determined context (surrounding sentence, list item, table cell, containing paragraph). Links worded as 'click here', 'read more', or 'learn more' fail this criterion because users of screen readers and other assistive technologies commonly navigate by iterating through a list of links out of context, where such phrases convey nothing about the destination. Meeting Link Purpose requires either descriptive inline link text, or accessible-name techniques such as aria-label and aria-describedby when inline changes are not possible.