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 22:17, Chris F.A. Johnson escribi?:
> > 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).
>
> Personally I don't like to see underlined links on a page, especially when
> there are many.  But I think that the above mentioned article tries to help
> differentiate itself, using the established (by contrast) and additional
> techniques (such as underlining).  As the article implies, this could help
> other people, which I think is a good thing if it does.
>
> If we're going to use underlining, I suppose we could do something to be in
> the middle (so underlined links aren't redundant and tiring).  It could be:
>
> - Split (I don't know how it will be in CSS) the external links with the
> internal links.

   That's easy enough to do (though it's been a while since I've used
   it; I'll have to look it up).

> - For external links, use underlining by default.

   But rather than underlining external links, I prefer to use a
   symbol after the link, just as Wikipedia does.

> - For both cases, use :hover (underlined and maybe with background, as the w3
> site has it).

  Right.

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