SC 1.3.2 and non-visited/visited links

Hi list,

SC 1.3.2  Any information that is conveyed by color is also visually 
evident without color.

Visual browsers have presented non-visited and visited links in 
different colours for a long time. Authors caring for usability have 
adopted this feature and suggested different colours for non-visited and 
visited links in their style sheets. SC 1.3.2 seems to indicate that 
this is not sufficient. Does my web content fail this SC when I don't 
change the default coulouring of links via CSS?

Or does SC 1.3.2 not apply here because "information that is conveyed by 
color" is defined as "information presented in a manner that depends 
entirely on the ability to perceive color" and the state of the link 
could also be programmatically determined?

-- 
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
                             (Te Deum, 4th cent.)

Received on Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:01:13 UTC