HTML link that doesn't do anything 2

[ITCPhil]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to find a way to make an html link but I don't want it to do anything.

This is because we are testing on a knowledge base tool (CA Unicenter Service Plus) and we are having a hard time enabling JAWS (software for the blink) to navigate to the main information window when someone clicks into a file. The software can read most links on the page, but once you go down as low as you can into the actual data, JAWS cannot read the body of the text which contains all the information.

I'm doing a bit of testing and I found that the only way to actually get to this window was to make the heading text into urls so that I can tab into them. We were told that headers would work, but I cannot put a header in there, only a heading. The thing of course is that if he clicks the URL, it opens up an error message or a blank page so I'd like it to do nothing at all.

Could anyone give me a hint on if this is possible? (I'm sure the Crystal Reports folks are happy I am not hassling them for once- I don't actually work with HTML, I'm helping out my coworker so I am far from competent with this.)

Thanks in advance,
Phil

 

[tgreer]

I couldn't make any sense of your message. What is "software for the blink"? You refer to "the software"... what software? "Go down as low as you can". What does that mean?

"I cannot put a header in there, only a heading". What is a header and/or a heading, and the difference between the two?

For a hyperlink to nowhere:

<a href="#">Go nowhere</a>

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[Vragabond]

<a href="#" onclick="return false;">Does nothing</a>

This link should do nothing. If you have javascript enabled, it should do absolutely nothing, if not, it should move the focus to the top of the page, but that is it.

 

[ITCPhil]

I meant for the blind, duh. Sorry about that.

Besides, we're testing now and it won't view the links at all.

 

[ITCPhil]

By header and heading I meant <Header></header> and <H1></1>

 

[Foamcow]

what's <header> ?

There is no such html element.

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[ITCPhil]

I meant head. It's fairly obvious I don't work with HTML very much

Actually, the person doing our work rewrote one of our entries and JAWS navigates through headings well in some cases.

I don't need further advice, but thank you for the empty HTML trick, it worked as you said.