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> Color blind people could add css extension that underline / highlight links. imo, if you're building a new library, this level of accessibility should be bak
by dixits 2y ago
> Color blind people could add css extension that underline / highlight links.
imo, if you're building a new library, this level of accessibility should be baked in.
Given the aim of the library to have better css defaults, expecting developers to override the link styling to add underlines or expecting the users to install browser extensions to do that, feels like a weird requirement.
- silverwind 2y agoUnderline links are subjectively ugly and it looks like outdated design.
- digging 2y agoThose are objectively bad reasons for abdicating accessibility though. Subjectively, I also don't agree that it's ugly. There are also other options like border-bottom or dashed underline or pseudo-elements with additional symbols. (However, I'm not sure color-only link distinction is actually an issue. It's never been considered problematic in accessibility reviews of the corporate sites/apps I work on professionally.)