Apologies, my reply was to Matthew, not Dwain.

Frank

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matthew Smith
Sent: Thursday, 11 January, 2007 10:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Visited Links and Accessibility

Quoth Dwain Alford at 01/11/07 18:09...

> for accessibility purposes in using color (on links and visited links, 
> etc.) i would recommend using the color contrast analyzer from 
> http://www.accessibleinfo.org.au/ <http://www.accessibleinfo.org.au/>
> 
> since web sites need to be accessible to everyone, don't forget the 
> color blind, so make sure your colors work for them not just those with 
> normal color vision.

I find excessive colours distracting and confess that I am guilty of 
displaying visited and unvisited links the same, and only changing on 
focus/hover.

With the colour blindness issue taken into consideration as well, would 
it not be better, therefore, to style visited links in a manner where 
colour is not involved at all?

Not being a CSS guru, I would need to check what options are available, 
but something like a line over and under the word for visited links may 
be a possibility.

Cheers

M

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