- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:10:05 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 13/03/2018 15:56, Andy Keyworth wrote: > Hi, > > Need advice on a situation that, frankly, I haven’t run into before and > am having trouble interpreting WCAG 2.0 success criteria. > > I’m comparing two separate pages on a customer website: within the text > content, there are hyperlinks which do not have a separate color from > the surrounding text. All the text is black. The hyperlinks are not > underlined: on one page, they are in *bold* text (and there is also bold > text that is not hyperlinked on that page); on the second page, the > hyperlinks are /italicized/, and resemble book titles. > > The links change color and gain an underline on mouse-over; they gain an > underline when the page is tabbed through. > > Does the situation described above contradict any of the Success > Criteria? I’m having trouble determining. They don’t seem to directly > violate either 1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics or 1.4.1 Use of Color; I’m > not sure which other SC might count. I would say this situation doesn't fail any of WCAG's SCs. In an audit, I'd note it as a general best practice/usability failure (which impacts sighted non-keyboard users the most). P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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