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From: Julius Charles Serrano
Date: May 23, 2012 8:40PM

Hi everyone.

Generally, it is a good accessibility practice to have an underline on
each link.

Regarding this matter, I wanna ask, particularly the accessibility
advocates here who are blind, is there a way to verify (non-visually)
that the links on a page are indeed underlined?

I think for sighted accessibility advocates, this is not a problem. I
just wanna know if there is a way for blind advocates to verify that
links are underlined. Perhaps we can do this by looking at the code? Any
ideas?

I think being able to verify this is necessary because sometimes web
developers tend to remove the underlines for whatever reason.

Thanks everyone.

Julius



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Julius Charles Serrano
Accessibility Specialist
Catalyst IT Ltd
http://www.catalyst.net.nz
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