Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:52:15 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] Message-ID: <20050112155215.GU49329@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <41E50DE3.5050105@nbritton.org> References: <20050102110732.GB861@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050103232207.GA44980@gothmog.gr> <9FC79942-5DE3-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <AC17F3AB-5EFE-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050108144127.GA75006@sumuk.de> <8B30EFDE-6195-11D9-A996-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <d9175cad05010914171ee95c7e@mail.gmail.com> <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> <F7F917E2-63BA-11D9-B8D2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <41E50DE3.5050105@nbritton.org>
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--KBav/v23NmJ7t/r/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:45:39AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Chris Zumbrunn wrote: >=20 > >On Jan 10, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:01PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>Something we do a lot at my workplace (web development firm, mostly) > >>>is to have underlines on rollovers and (on some sites unselected, > >>>depending of course on user preference). I would prefer to not see > >>>the blue underlined if we could avoid it. Of course with the modern > >>>css technology, it's not an issue because any user that wants blue > >>>underlined links (vision impairment, personal preference, etc) can > >>>override the link colour via his/her client. > >> > >> > >>I am sure that people with vision impairment would love to mess around > >>trying to edit a custom stylesheet because you don't like blue anchors. > >>I quite like the rest of this patch, but removing the underline from > >>links is evil. > > > > > >People with vision impairment set their browser to override the=20 > >stylesheet, so the web works best for them personally. This is not=20 > >something that is specific to a particular site. I would argue that=20 > >underlining links impairs the vision of everybody else ;-) > > > >The important thing is consistency: If it's blue it's a link, if it's=20 > >not blue it's not a link. > > > > > This link should be helpful: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040510.html Thank you (I am slightly shocked that it took two days for someone to agree with me). The W3c agree: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-color Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --KBav/v23NmJ7t/r/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB5UeuocfcwTS3JF8RAlCZAJ9Wxtr0pcUDqxe6WmtEZMjt5z4+WACgoMIM dqAn3JXNrHIs2P86x5VwJ0s= =pZMe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KBav/v23NmJ7t/r/--
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