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Embedded Links and Online Reading Accessibility: Whitney Quesenbery and Caroline Jarrett, #stc10

Series: Dallas STC Summit videocasts

by Tom Johnson on May 7, 2010
categories: video technical-writingweb-design

In this video, I talk with Whitney Quesenbery and Caroline Jarrett about the feasibility of removing links embedded directly within paragraphs -- which Kathryn Summers and Ginny Redish describe as "exit points" that confuse and disorient low-literacy readers.

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