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Re: visited hyperlink text color

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Aug 11, 2015 3:39PM

Jennie Delisi wrote:

> Does anyone know the visited hyperlink colors for email?

The default visited link color in browsers was historically #884488. I
see that Firefox currently uses #5544BC and Chrome uses #551A8B, both
of which provide better contrast. Of course software and web pages can
define their own visited link colors - and there are certain to by
innumerable possibilities out there.

But I'm not quite sure why the default color would be relevant to you.
Either you can't control it, in which case there's nothing you can do.
Or you can control it with CSS in your HTML e-mail, in which case you
should simply ensure that your colors provide sufficient contrast
(keeping in mind that non-underlined links have additional contrast
requirements).

I've written about the WCAG 2.0 requirements for link colors here -
http://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-0-and-link-colors/

Jared