It’s easy for those of us who use a mouse or trackpad on a daily basis to forget that many people use computers without them. If you maintain web pages and are still looking for a New Year’s resolution, please consider working to eliminate “click” from your lexicon.
In most cases, you will find that it’s pretty easy to substitute “choose” or “use” for “click.” For example, “To look up an electronic journal, choose ‘metaLINK’ on the Libraries’ home page, then ‘Find e-Journal.’ ”
In other cases, no substitution is needed at all. Instead of, “Click here for more information” you can simply drop “Click here for” and make “More information” your link instead. Besides making your pages more inclusive, they will instantly look like they were created sometime after 1999, even if the content has been around a while!
I know I have pages out there that still say “click” and I’ll be trying to eliminate it from them all in the coming weeks.