Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:45:39AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
> 
> >On Jan 10, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >
> >>On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:01PM -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Something we do a lot at my workplace (web development firm, mostly)
> >>>is to have underlines on rollovers and (on some sites unselected,
> >>>depending of course on user preference).  I would prefer to not see
> >>>the blue underlined if we could avoid it.  Of course with the modern
> >>>css technology, it's not an issue because any user that wants blue
> >>>underlined links (vision impairment, personal preference, etc) can
> >>>override the link colour via his/her client.
> >>
> >>
> >>I am sure that people with vision impairment would love to mess around
> >>trying to edit a custom stylesheet because you don't like blue anchors.
> >>I quite like the rest of this patch, but removing the underline from
> >>links is evil.
> >
> >
> >People with vision impairment set their browser to override the 
> >stylesheet, so the web works best for them personally. This is not 
> >something that is specific to a particular site. I would argue that 
> >underlining links impairs the vision of everybody else ;-)
> >
> >The important thing is consistency: If it's blue it's a link, if it's 
> >not blue it's not a link.
> >
> >
> This link should be helpful: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040510.html

Thank you (I am slightly shocked that it took two days for someone to
agree with me).  The W3c agree: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-color

Ceri
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