Methodology
Descriptive link texts
ia.link-text · 3.7
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Why it matters
AI agents use link text to understand navigation and discover related content. Generic text like 'click here' provides no context about where the link leads.
How to fix it
Replace generic link texts with texts that name the target.
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Find links with texts such as click here, read more or here.
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Change the text so that it names the target page.
<a href="/pricing">See the pricing plans</a>
Verify
Run a new scan for this checkpoint:
isagentready results {domain} --checkpoint ia.link-text
Details Mapping, lifecycle and references
- AR mapping
- No AR practice
- Evidence source
- WCAG Link Purpose (In Context)
- Score role
- Core
- Introduced
- 2026-08-24
- Revised
- 2026-09-02
- Methodology version
- 2026-10-22