Re: Underline vs. bottom border

Hi Amy,

I don’t know of any impacts on assistive technologies, but my experience with bottom borders on link text has been that they don’t work well when the text wraps. This might not be an issue for short words or phrases or specific use cases, but I prefer not to use it for paragraph text.

Best wishes,
Michellanne 

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> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:43 AM, Pearson, Amy <apearson@apa.org> wrote:
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> Happy New Year, everyone.
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> I was hoping you could provide some insight regarding the treatment/coding of underlined links…
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> We currently use text-decoration: underline to underline links in body text. However, we are considering changing this to use a border-bottom treatment instead (plus a little padding so the line is slightly lower than the standard underline).
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> Are there any negative ramifications to using the padding-bottom with assistive technologies? I have seen some demos where users can adjust how different elements appear on the page and want to make sure we’re not going to do anything that would override or interfere with that.
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> Thank you for your expertise on this! -amy
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