Well said.
I recently seen this for myself browsing through my own site.
I had a menu of related links which didn't have the cue point of color for
visited and didn't show the link to the page one was on, I found myself
losing track of where I had been, and that was on my own site!
So yes, visited links indicators should be "revisited" / restored.
Bruce Prochnau
bkdesign solutions
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Visited Links and Accessibility
One of the points in accessibility checks is that information conveyed
using colour is also conveyed without. The most common way of doing
visited links is to have them be a slightly different colour. It's my
opinion that in a purely visual sense (because I don't know how screen
readers announce visited links) this approach is inaccessible.
Its become a major pet peeve of mine that people are not styling visited
links at all, many times, now-a-days. I give as an example a recent page
I was looking at of Google's.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1555
In the "old" days the browser would automatically tell you what was
visited or not. Now, with css many times people aren't including them and
so .... very aggravating. I find that "visited" information crucially
helpful when visiting a site, especially something like my example, above.
So, not sure what the best way is, but, I myself, tend to go with a
lighter shade of the non-visited. Just do something! :)
cheers
Donna
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Donna Jones
Portland, Maine
207 772 0266
www.westendwebs.com
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