About the museum | Thurrock Museum | Thurrock Council

Free school meals | School meals | Thurrock Council

Join us online using Microsoft Teams | Thurrock Council

Burials | Deaths, burials and cremations | Thurrock Council

Graffiti removal | Graffiti | Thurrock Council

Fair processing | Information about you | Thurrock Council

Environment and safety | Thurrock Council

Overview | Business rates | Thurrock Council

Adult care and health | Thurrock Council

Environmental permits | Industrial pollution | Thurrock Council

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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January 2025

December 2024

Thurrock Council

Title / URL	Issues
About the museum \| Thurrock Museum \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/thurrock-museum/about-museum	2
Free school meals \| School meals \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/school-meals/free-school-meals	1
Join us online using Microsoft Teams \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/microsoft-teams	1
Burials \| Deaths, burials and cremations \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/deaths-burials-and-cremations/burials	1
Graffiti removal \| Graffiti \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/graffiti/graffiti-removal	1
Fair processing \| Information about you \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/information-about-you/fair-processing	1
Environment and safety \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/environment-and-safety	1
Overview \| Business rates \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/business-rates/overview	1
Adult care and health \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/adult-care-and-health	1
Environmental permits \| Industrial pollution \| Thurrock Councilwww.thurrock.gov.uk/industrial-pollution/environmental-permits	1

Ensure links can be used by screen readers

Thurrock Council

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