Research Guides: NYU LibGuide Accessibility: Friendly URLs

Overview

Each guide and each page of the guide should have a friendly URL

Use lowercase and dashes between words (friendly-url-example)
- Use the tab name when it’s short
- If the tab is more than 4 words
  - You’ll need to be a little creative. Focus on what is easy to remember, spell, and gives the user enough enough info about what page/tab would be about if they didn’t have any more context

You do not have to update the friendly URLs to match the convention suggested above, especially if you've provide these friendly URLs in other platforms (i.e. NYU Classes).
Try to avoid editing your friendly URLs too much after they’re published, it will break the links users may already have.

Create & edit friendly URLs - Help Center
Springshare LibGuides knowledge-base FAQ about Friendly URLs for pages within a Guide.
Customizing a guide's friendly URL - Help Center
Springshare LibGuides knowledge-base FAQ about Friendly URLs for a Guide.

For this Friendly URL page within the A11y Remediation Guide:

Avoid using URLs that are not easily readable, like this: https://nyu.libapps.com/libguides/admin_c.php?g=1043727&p=7573075
Instead, use this: https://guides.nyu.edu/a11y-remediation/friendly-url

Do this for all Guides AND pages/tabs within a Guide.

Web AIM Links & Hypertext
Hypertext links are one of the most basic elements of HTML, as its name implies (HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language). As such, making hypertext links accessible is one of the most basic and most important aspects of web accessibility. For the most part, this is an easy task. Standard hypertext links work with all technologies and platforms and users of all abilities can access them, whether directly or through the use of some sort of assistive technology. As might be expected though, there is more to hypertext link accessibility than simply creating a link. Some types of links are more accessible than others, and some types of links are completely inaccessible to people with certain types of disabilities. Because links are so basic to the functionality of web content, inaccessible links are one of the most severe barriers to overall accessibility.
Accessible U: Hyperlinks
You can improve both the usability and accessibility of hyperlinks by embedding them in text and making them clear, concise, and meaningful out of context. Sighted users visually scan pages for links to help them find what they're looking for. People using screen readers can do the same thing: At the touch of a button, they can pull up a list of all the links on a page. As you learn more about links on this page, think about links that would be most useful to you in a list like that.