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Avoid active ‘home’ links on the home page Usability Guideline

Description

An active ‘Home’ link on the home page makes some users think that it’s not the home page.

Applicable standards

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

  • 5.9 Jun 2015 Fixed false positive.
  • 3.0 Dec 2008 Fixed false positive.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov5.6.2