What is an alternative to "click here"?

Question

I would like to direct website visitors to use their mouse to select an image. However, I want something a little more contemporary than "CLICK HERE." In fact, I'd prefer to avoid use of the word CLICK altogether. It sounds so old school.

Answer 1

How about 'Instant Access'

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Answer 2

(1) If you care that your website be accessible by (to, for) people who can't use a "mouse" and who must use a keyboard instead (people who can't "click") then you are WISE not to use "click here". Some, especially the non-seeing, who visit your website, may have no idea where "here" is.
(2) Simply make the link spot obvious! Use different-colored text around it, use alt="where-it's going" text for the image, use title="This is a longer description" for the Use a background-image (like a pointer-icon at the edge?) for the image). Use a caption for the image that states the link destination, and NOT a verb that says one should click to go there: the link-color, perhaps underscore, perhaps arrow-pointed (traditional right-pointing triangle), perhaps bold print) should suffice.

Answer 3

"Click on image/picture" maybe with some information about what is going to happen, such as "Click on image for more details".

"Select image by clicking on it" might also work.

I recently read about "Click here" as a way of telling the users what to do; not all agreed on it been good or bad, but sometimes telling the user what to do is okay, as long as it is done in a polite way.

Answer 4

Hit that button, tap on dat, hit dis, touch me (Oh er!), slap me? with a hand cursor or even "Give me five" with again a hand cursor ... I dunno just a few ideas lol