Re: text-decoration-skip-ink auto should continue past behavior - 30+ years of underline behavior changed by latest CSS draft from OwN-3m-All on 2018-02-22 (www-style@w3.org from February 2018)

From: OwN-3m-All <own3mall@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:27:55 -0700
To: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
Cc: W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAK0ZC5VX3CnzE=0UbkoB5edXn9LLMBXg7R8tw50i8rv=3sgnbw@mail.gmail.com>

> Finally, note that accessibility advocacy groups and experts formally discourage using underlining of non-clickable text and items. You want to reduce confusion, guesswork, hesitation of users.

Yep, I do this already.  However, with the recent change, links are
now confusing due to W3C changing the default look of underlined text.
It looks like W3C ignored those advocacy groups in making this
decision.

Received on Thursday, 22 February 2018 01:28:37 UTC