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Re: Color of link text

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 27, 2016 7:17PM

> My question is whether the focus outline itself counts as an additional differentiation, when the link receives focus, if it has the 3:1 contrast between the link and surrounding text. It seems to technically satisfy 1.4.1, but I don't think it should.

Joseph, I often wondered the same thing. F73 does not include test steps saying to focus the links which G183 does and thus currently with F73 a link that just uses color (hue) would fail F73. F73 also does not relate to contrast -- but only focuses on Hue -- so links and text that are differentiated with contrast/lightness could pass F73. This is definitely an area that could use some clarification.

F73: https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20130905/F73

In the check for G183 it doesn't seem to say that an outline is not sufficient -- it just says some other visual enhancement but doesn't specify if that enhancement must be on the link text itself or can surround the link text. If you consider image links -- they have similar challenges with the user not knowing they are clickable.

G183 https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20130905/G183.html

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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