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Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 23, 2012 9:23PM

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Julius Charles Serrano wrote:
> is there a way to verify (non-visually)
> that the links on a page are indeed underlined?

You can't easily tell from the markup alone, unless you check the CSS
to see if there's some style somewhere that might remove the
underline. One easy way would be to use Firebug in Firefox to analyze
the link and see if the computed text-decoration style is set to
either underline or none.

Jared