[SEC508] RE: [SEC508] §1194.21(i) violation with visited/non-visited links by default?

["Jonathan Avila" <jon@bartsite.com>]

As long as guidelines establish for use of user defined style sheets this is
not an issue.

Jonathan 

-----Original Message-----
From: sec508-admin@trace.wisc.edu [mailto:sec508-admin@trace.wisc.edu] On
Behalf Of Peter Korn
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:28 PM
To: sec508@trace.wisc.edu
Subject: [SEC508] §1194.21(i) violation with visited/non-visited links by
default?

Greetings,

Sorry if this has come up before and been discussed...

In a conversation earlier today about §1194.21(i) "Color coding shall not be
used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action,
prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element" the question of
visited/non-visited links in a web page came up.  The default
behavior/convention for this has been a color change of the link.  Clearly
one can change the default behavior (especially with CSS); but...

I did a search of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, and didn't see a
reference to the question of link color.


Any thoughts?


Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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