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From: steven
Date: Oct 5, 2010 7:33AM

Most of us here are likely to be familiar with the following points of view:



. People are familiar when something is a link, when it is
underlined (and generally coloured blue).

. People with visual difficulties find it harder to read text that
is underlined.



I generally am in favour of making text as easy to read as possible, on the
basis that text links are generally assistive to non linked text and
therefore are often of secondary importance. And as much as I agree with
blue underlined text being commonly associated as links, I consider them to
be leftovers of a by-gone era that has moved on, where search engines once
favoured keyword stuffing and popup windows and framesets ruled the
internet.



What are other peoples thoughts?