From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 15:52:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516B116A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA6243D46 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:52:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1Cokn9-00026E-66; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:52:15 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:52:15 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20050112155215.GU49329@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Nikolas Britton , Chris Zumbrunn , freebsd-www@freebsd.org References: <20050102110732.GB861@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050103232207.GA44980@gothmog.gr> <9FC79942-5DE3-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050108144127.GA75006@sumuk.de> <8B30EFDE-6195-11D9-A996-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050110180345.GC49329@submonkey.net> <41E50DE3.5050105@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KBav/v23NmJ7t/r/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41E50DE3.5050105@nbritton.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:52:17 -0000 --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/--