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

["Jim Tobias" <tobias@inclusive.com>]

Yeah, this should be in the User Agent Guidelines.

 

Perhaps its absence is a function of the almost-total focus on screen readers....

 

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From: Giorgio Brajnik [mailto:giorgio@dimi.uniud.it]
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:07 AM
To: Peter Korn
Cc: sec508@trace.wisc.edu
Subject: [SEC508] Re: [SEC508] §1194.21(i) violation with visited/non-visited links by default?

I think Peter is right: using only color to distinguish visited and unvisited links is a violation of the (i) par.
Fortunately there are simple solutions, like using an appropriate CSS style to change the link decoration (assuming the link is text), like

a:visited {border-bottom:1px dashed}

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On 12/16/05, Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@sun.com> wrote:

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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