Connect | Welcome to your Alumni Network | TU Dublin

CAO Open Days | TU Dublin

Part-Time | TU Dublin

Contact Us | TU Dublin

Library | TU Dublin

Connect | Finance | TU Dublin

Connect | Employers | TU Dublin

Study at TU Dublin | Springboard+ | TU Dublin

Apprenticeships | TU Dublin

Postgraduate | TU Dublin

Links must be defined in a specific way to be accessed by screen readers, which are used by 
blind and the partially-sighted.

To work with accessibility technologies, links must contain both machine-readable text, and 
a `href` attribute. If a link is not actually
pointing to a page or part of a page, it should be replaced with another semantic element, such
as a `button`, or the `<a>` tag should have a role of `button`. 

For example:

```html
<a href="/about">About us</a>
```

If the link contains _nothing but an image_, that image should specify alternative text, e.g.

```html
<a href="/apple">
    <img src="apple.png" alt="Apple">
</a>
```

Before HTML5, an anchor was often used to create a target to link to, e.g.

```html
<a name="example"></a>
```

This is not supported in HTML5, and the use of anchors for targets is discouraged. Use an `id`
attribute on a non-anchor tag instead, e.g.

```html
<div id="example"> ... </div>
```

Empty links (e.g. `<a></a>`) are often incorrectly used for buttons or controls in a
JavaScript application. In these cases, you should usually define the link as having a more appropriate
role, e.g. as a button. To do this, use the `role` attribute (e.g `<a role="button">`), or replace 
the `<a>` tag with a more appropriate tag, such as `<button>`.

For more details, see [Technique H91](https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20161007/H91)
and learn about [ARIA roles](https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-use-aria-effectively-with-html5/).

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Technological University Dublin

	Title / URL	Issues
	Connect \| Welcome to your Alumni Network \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/connect/alumni/	19
	CAO Open Days \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/opendays/	15
	Part-Time \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/study/part-time/	7
	Contact Us \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/contact-us/	7
	Library \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/library/	3
	Connect \| Finance \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/connect/finance/	1
	Connect \| Employers \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/connect/employers/	1
	Study at TU Dublin \| Springboard+ \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/study/springboard/	1
	Apprenticeships \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/study/apprenticeships/	1
	Postgraduate \| TU Dublinwww.tudublin.ie/study/postgraduate/	1

Ensure links can be used by screen readers

Technological University Dublin

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