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Re: Hyperlinks Not Underlined Question

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 3, 2020 4:07PM

On 03/04/2020 21:31, Jim Homme wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm talking about links in paragraphs. The links are not underlined and the text and background of the links is the same as the text and background of the paragraphs unless you tab to or hover on them.


Paradoxically, if you have links that are visually completely
indistinguishable from static text inside a passage of text (i.e. use
the same foreground color and no other distinguishing visual
characteristics), this doesn't currently fail any WCAG SC (e.g. doesn't
fail 1.4.1 use of color, as color is not used to distinguish the link).

This sort of gap is something that 2.2 may attempt to fix (partially at
least), requiring some form of visual identification for actionable
controls/links.

P
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