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What
Update the text of internal links to components and patterns with the following criteria:
Why
This follows https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system/issues/4267 where we've been auditing our link text so that it can be clearly understood out of context by screen reader users who are navigating by links. From the audit, these links have the most clearly defined criteria to update so we're updating these now.
Notes
Component links are a lot easier to adjust compared to pattern links. Components and the way we refer to components are quite specific in that they're an individual 'classes' so it's quite easy to change eg: 'the footer' to 'the Footer component'. Patterns are more nebulous. Sometimes they're specific things eg: the Validation pattern but they're also 'pages', things to ask for, techniques or tasks.
That means the way we link to patterns are harder to update if we're trying to be strict about criteria for internal links. Eg: it's difficult to update link text like 'ask for national insurance numbers' in the context 'read more about how to ask for national insurance numbers'. Following discussions with @calvin-lau-sig7 and the website accessibility squad, we've establshed some slightly looser criteria for patterns. Notably: