On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:04 PM, max <[email protected]> wrote: > @jared: > > I've got two points. > > 1. Hover isn't a thing we can rely on. Even desktop computers have touch > screens now. >
Whether or not underlines are shown all the time or on hover is configurable via a preference. 2.The colour red usually means that something's wrong (in our case: a page > doesn't exist yet), and so does the "!" icon. "Dotted Underline" on the > other hand has no meaning to it, it's super abstract. Users would have to > learn what it means by trial and error. > Adding a ! icon after every redlink would decrease ease of reading for everyone (including the color-blind). Considering that inability to distinguish between red and blue is extremely rare in humans (1:33,000), I think it would make a lot more sense for us to focus efforts on improving our usability for people with poor eyesight (~50% in the U.S.). For example, we have countless instances of showing colored text on a similar-colored background, especially in en.wiki templates. Our perennial obsession with color-blindness is given undue weight by comparison. Ryan Kaldari
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