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

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From: Bevi Chagnon
Date: May 24, 2012 2:28AM

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

Julius, underlined links are more of a "convention," which means most
sighted users are expecting that links will be underlined so it's good
practice to underline links if you want most users to quickly see and
identify links.

But as Jodie said below, underlining or any other visual formatting of links
(like blue) is not made known to screen reader users. Their tools tell them
that it's a link, not that it's underlined.

The underlining, however, might be helpful to low-vision users of screen
readers and other A.T. users, just as it would for full-vision users.
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