On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:35 +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: > On 09/02/2006, at 8:16 AM, Matthew East wrote (in introduction): > > > I've been looking at the possibility of spicing up the yelp look a > > bit. I've > > only done a bit of brief experimentation, I thought I'd ask first > > and see if > > this is something you'd be interested in doing for stock yelp. > > This reminds me of a query I should have made some time ago... > > Underlined links in Vietnamese are actually confusing: we use a > system of diacritics to distinguish meaning, and one of those > diacritics is a dot under the vowel. Underlined text obscures that > dot, thus leaving the user trying to guess the meaning of the word. > > Is Yelp currently capable of turning off link decoration, for > example? If so, is this easily done, from a menu or Prefs?
Underlining isn't a very nice thing to do to your text, regardless of what language you're reading. The whole underlining concept comes from hand-written documents, where font style and weight changes are hard to do. But somehow, somebody thought it would be a good idea to mark hyperlinks with underlines, seriously hurting readability. It's become such an accepted idiom that you create a discoverability problem if you don't use underlines. We could, I suppose, add an option to Yelp for whether or not to underline links. Even though I know I'd turn off underlines if that option existed, I just hate to put that sort of thing in the preferences dialog. Perhaps we could do a per-language setting. We'd leave underlines on for languages where underlining is merely bad, and turn them off for languages where it's downright evil. Would that be an acceptable solution? (Side note: I'm of the opinion that color change alone is sufficient to make links discoverable, but only if text color isn't changed throughout the document for all sorts of other stuff. And before anybody accuses me of being insensitive to accessibility needs, bear in mind that I'm color-blind.) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
