While preparing your website for launch, users can use the CSS for Stage Sites plugin that will highlight links with errors.
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- URL Defense links occur when they are copied from an email into WordPress. To fix these links, users will need to paste the actual URL into the link.
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- Links that open in a new tab can cause confusion for people that are using screen readers.
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- Invalid href errors occur whenever the link does not have a href attribute assigned to it.
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- Empty link errors occur whenever the link only has a # as the href attribute.
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- These links show if the link is a pdf file. They should be labeled correctly like this Copyright Checklist (pdf)
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- These links show if the link is a word document. They should be labeled correctly with (doc).
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- These links show if the link is a Excel document. They should be labeled correctly with (xls).
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- Http links are not secure. Users will need to add https:// to their links and test them to make sure they are secure and have an SSL certificate assigned.