Re: [Dragora-users] Some issues with the Dragora website

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Matias Fonzo wrote:

> El 2019-11-13 21:56, Chris F.A. Johnson escribi?:
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Michael Siegel wrote:
> >
> > > Am 13.11.19 um 22:10 schrieb Chris F.A. Johnson:
> > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Michael Siegel wrote:
> > ...
> > > > ? I don't like underlining links (except on :hover). I prefer to make
> > > > ? them stand out with bold. I saw this on a site several years ago
> > > > ? and liked it. It seems to be used fairly often these days.
> > >
> > > I have to disagree on that. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any
> > > site that does it like that. But that's subjective, of course. My real
> > > point is that making bold text indicate hyperlinks is not a good idea.
> >
> >    Well the first four sites I went to after reading your comment
> >    don't have the links underlined:
> >
> >          https://www.canadiantire.ca/en.html
> >          http://carlo-domeniconi.com/
> >          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> >          https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america
> >
> >    And I've gone to a few other sites since I made note of those, and
> >    NONE have the links underlined (execpt on :hover, if then).
>
> I just found more information about this, here:
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F73.html

   ...where it says:

   Procedure

      Check that each link in the page that is identifiable by color
      (hue) is visually identifiable via some other means (e.g.,
      underlined, bolded, italicized, sufficient difference in
      lightness, etc).



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