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

From: Robyn Hunt
Date: May 24, 2012 1:26PM

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Hi, 
I agree with Oscar and Sarah. In our work testing with people with
learning difficulties we have found that blue underlined links are
important accessibility features for a group of people who are often
forgotten by web developers and communicators. 
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Today's Topics: 
   1. underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (Julius Charles Serrano) 
   2. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective
(Jared Smith) 
   3. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (Hoger, Jodie) 
   4. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective
(Stella Mudd) 
   5. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (Bevi Chagnon) 
   6. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (Tim Harshbarger) 
   7. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (John E Brandt) 
   8. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (Bourne, Sarah (ITD)) 
   9. Re: underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
      (Oscar DeLong) 
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Subject: [WebAIM] underline on links, from the blind's perspective 
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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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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] underline on links, from the blind's
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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 
 
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] underline on links, from the blind's
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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 
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