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| Date: | Wed, 3 Dec 2025 14:49:38 -0500 |
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| To: | Betsy Grenevitch <blinda...@gmail.com> |
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On Dec 8, 2025, at 8:57 PM, Betsy Grenevitch <blinda...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Dec 9, 2025, at 7:01 AM, betsy grenevitch <blinda...@gmail.com> wrote:
like like Is there not a way for them to have it just say the topic of the link such as Restoring Christ to counseling? Just curious.
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OK, for links there is a relatively simple way to turn a long link like the one I setn you into a short link that has text instead of an image.
The email needs to be in HTML format which is what a lot of email clients will default to, though I think your email is in plain text because when I just tried to paste a link, it said I had a choice of continuing or switching to HTML…
So, I will be switching to HTML in order to send that same link with a text label, followed by an explanation of how to do it.
The above link was pasted into the email as:
I Then moved the cursor to the beginning of the link and brought up the context menu, which can be done with a right click of the mouse or shift+f10.
I then arrowed to the option Edit Hyperlink and hit enter.
The first edit field is the actual link. Tab once to the second edit field where you can remove the link and type in a name, in this case, Restoring Christ to counseling & counseling to the church and press enter or tab to the OK and press enter. I don't mess with anything else.
If the one that is doing this is sighted, it will be very quick and easy.
HTH,
Richard, USA,
he only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
-- Alan Watts (1915-1973)
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Thank you. I will save these directions and try it on the email later.
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On Dec 9, 2025, at 10:38 AM, Betsy Grenevitch <blinda...@gmail.com> wrote:
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I must be missing a step per my understanding. If I cut and paste the entire email into a word document--I tried to just copy the link and that did not work either--nothing comes to the document except the information at the bottom. What step am I missing? It is not what you sent but what I am not understanding.
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I forgot to ask how do i change the email to html? Again, sorry for so many questions. I will be saving all of this like I did from the other day.
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But why are you explaining this method? The link isn't being sent anywhere and the point is to know what the link is before you follow it to see where your browser goes. And you haven't asked what e-mail program is being used so you don't know if your instructions apply.
Also, for you, Betsy, what do you want to accomplish? You can't know where the link goes without following it and seeing where your browser goes if working by yourself. I've followed about four of these links and three out of the four led to PDF documents, one is the syllabus, for example.
If you want to have the college consider the problem, you may write and explain it, that using a screen-reader, there is nothing read when you move from link to link in the e-mail so you have no idea where the links lead. You may want to contact an advocacy organization, as I suggested to have them talk with the college in more technical terms about the problem. But if your goal is to look at the information now, there is no way you can do that without either following the links and seeing where they go, or asking the school to label the links so a screen-reader can read them or seeing if a sighted friend can read the links and then you would label them in the message. You can't label the links working by yourself without actually clicking the links, seeing where the browser goes, then labeling the links with what you want to call them after looking at where the browser goes.
Gene
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On Dec 9, 2025, at 1:06 PM, Gene Asner <gsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Dec 9, 2025, at 1:41 PM, Gene Asner <gsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
I just checked one of your messages, and as I thought, you are describing how to put the link in an e-mail message you are sending. You say, "The steps I gave you are only if you are sending the link or it would also work in a word document." That is not what was asked.
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While in this particular case Gene is right, many times you can look at a link’s destination before clicking it with NVDA+k. I’d say this is quite an important digital skill: if you have any doubt about the authenticity of a link, the NVDA+k shortcut reports where the link is going.
In Betsy’s particular case the links are all run through an email marketing tracker, but it’s worth calling out this relatively new NVDA feature again I think.
Sean.
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