WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

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

for

From: Hoger, Jodie
Date: May 23, 2012 9:24PM

Hi there. I am new to the list and have been watching closely. I am not
techy in the slightest - smile but am totally blind and use a screen
reader (window eyes by gw micro) and am passionate about universal
design. From my perspective, I usually tab from link to link or use the
find feature for links. Either way, I do not get any feedback that a
link is underlined and in fact, until this discussion, was not aware
that links were. I would imagine for people with vision impairments,
learning difficulties and anyone else I suppose that the common practice
of an underline would assist in the identification of the link.
For me though, it makes no difference.
I hope this feedback is useful.
Best wishes,
Jo

Jodie Hoger
Teacher Consultant (vision), Equity Services TAFE NSW - Illawarra
Institute, Building A, 60 Bienda St, Bomaderry, NSW, 2541
VOIP 54865| P 02 4421 9865| M 0437 035 042| F 02 4421 9804| E
<EMAIL REMOVED> | www.illawarra.tafensw.edu.au