At 02:09 PM 04/28/02 +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
>> My suggestion is to make all links (in the content section):
>>
>> a:link { text-decoration: none; }
>> a:visited { text-decoration: none; }
>> a:active { text-decoration: underline; }
>> a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
>>
>Bill, the default styles are important. We can "force" people to upgrade
>their old buggy browsers, we cannot "force" people to fix their
>disabilities. We don't want to discriminate the latter group even if it
>makes the site look somewhat nicer. And unfortunately being a
>sophisticated user doesn't help here :(
I guess I don't understand what you are saying. Are you saying that some
people might not be able to see the blue text color and therefore not see
that it's a link? Therefore we need the underline?
And since the main toc and the toc at the top of each page are obviously
links then that's why it's OK to not underline those?
In other words, if someone can't distinguish blue from black then it's
still obvious what are links. Is that what you are saying?
It still looks like a mixed style when the index.html pages that have a
list of links (with a small description indented) underlined and then go to
the page where their are links are not underlined. Then on the page the
links are underlined again.
Non-underlined links are so common these days I wonder how color blind
people set up their browsers. I know you can override style sheets, but I
wonder if you can just override the underline style. I suppose the hover
underline is very helpful.
I know nothing of this, but from reading I wonder if the reason blue is the
default link color is because, in general, a majority of color-blind people
tend to see blue on white better than other colors.
One site says:
DO use blue, yellow, white and black if you really must use colors to
distinguish items. These combinations are less likely to be confused than
others.
Another site says:
Not only can most color-blind people see black and white accurately, but
they see all shades of yellow and blue. Most color-blind people can even
see dimmer shades of yellow like gold and olive, for example.
--
Bill Moseley
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