link-text-design

link-text-design is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (667 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing link labels that explain their destination without relying on surrounding text. This also makes lists of links easier to use with screen readers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing navigation labels, calls to action, download links, and links in articles.
Why use it?
It replaces vague labels such as “click here” or “read more,” which do not explain where a link leads when read on their own.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the accessible-content plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing navigation labels, calls to action, download links, and links in articles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/inclusive-design-skills/link-text-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills --skill link-text-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accessible-content, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 667 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00077 $0.00667
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00333
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash 93108888450e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-text-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

accessible-content/skills/link-text-design/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write link text that tells users where they're going before they get there. Screen reader users often navigate by pulling up a list of all links on a page — if every link says "click here" or "read more", that list is useless.

Core Principle

Every link should make sense when read completely on its own, outside of any surrounding sentence or context.

Rules

Link Text Describes the Destination

  • Good: "View your order history"
  • Bad: "Click here"
  • Good: "Download the accessibility guidelines (PDF, 2.4MB)"
  • Bad: "Download"
  • Good: "Read the full Q3 performance report"
  • Bad: "Read more"

Never Use Generic Link Text

These phrases mean nothing out of context:

  • "Click here"
  • "Read more"
  • "Learn more"
  • "Here"
  • "This"
  • "More"
  • "Link"

If you find yourself writing these, ask: more about what? Here where? That answer is your link text.

Same Text, Same Destination

If two links have the same text, they must go to the same place. Two different "Learn more" links going to different pages is confusing for everyone and disorienting for screen reader users.

Different Destinations, Different Text

If two links go to different places, their text must be different.

  • Bad: "View details" / "View details" (going to different products)
  • Good: "View details for Standard Plan" / "View details for Pro Plan"

Special Cases

Links That Open New Windows or Tabs

  • Warn the user: "View the policy (opens in new tab)"
  • Or use a visible external link icon with alt text

Links to Files

  • State the file type and size: "Annual report (PDF, 3.1MB)"
  • This helps users decide before committing to a download

Links Within Body Text

  • The link text should be the meaningful phrase, not the whole sentence
  • Good: "See the full list of supported languages"
  • Bad: "To see the full list of supported languages, click here"
  • Don't link URLs as text unless the URL itself is the information

Image Links

  • The image's alt text serves as the link text
  • A linked logo: alt="Company name — home page"
  • A linked icon: alt describes the action, not the icon

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 80 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 93108888450e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

link-text-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/inclusive-design-skills (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 667 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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