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Re: visited hyperlink text color

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From: Kroon, Kurtis@FTB
Date: Aug 12, 2015 12:54PM

CSS support is all across the board. In particular, if you have to support Gmail web clients, your choices are "inline styles or nothing"[1][2].

Thank you!
                          
Kurtis Kroon
CA:GO:FTB:ASD:CSB:WSS:WUXU:AssocISA

References:
1: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
2: http://templates.mailchimp.com/resources/email-client-css-support/


-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Smith [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 9:08
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] visited hyperlink text color

I admit I don't know a lot about e-mail clients, but I can't envision a situation where you'd be able to define a color background but not be able to define the visited link colors. Both require basic CSS support in the e-mail client, and I think e-mail clients that don't support basic CSS would be rather rare these days.

So if CSS is supported, the user will get your defined colors which will always be sufficient if you define both background and visited link colors (a:visited in CSS) correctly. In a case where CSS is not supported, the user will get the default purple on white colors, which is also sufficient (and which you can't control anyway).

I think the only case where the user would experience contrast issues is if you were to define a background color but not a visited link color - and that's entirely preventable on your part.

I suppose there could be odd situations, such as <table bgcolor> that might be supported for background colors where CSS for visited link colors would not be, but this can be avoided by only using CSS to define your colors.

Or perhaps I'm overlooking something.

Jared


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