Comments for Web Axe http://www.webaxe.org blog and podcast on web accessibility Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:34:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Keep the Underline by Accessibility | University of St Andrews Web team http://www.webaxe.org/keep-the-underline-text-links/#comment-3750 Accessibility | University of St Andrews Web team Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:34:32 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=945#comment-3750 [...] Keep the underline [...]

]]> Comment on Rock bottom for Captcha, White House by Steve Grobschmidt http://www.webaxe.org/rock-bottom-for-captcha-white-house/#comment-3643 Steve Grobschmidt Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:15:15 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=1006#comment-3643 That is astoundingly bad. And it’s an accomplishment to hit a new low with CAPTCHA.

]]> Comment on Leave Accessibility to the Experts Please by Making Accessibility Accessible | Blog | MRW Web Design http://www.webaxe.org/leave-accessibility-to-experts-please/#comment-3210 Making Accessibility Accessible | Blog | MRW Web Design Tue, 14 May 2013 15:51:10 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=823#comment-3210 [...] The article that started things was “Leave Accessibility to the Experts Please:” [...]

]]> Comment on Keep the Underline by Dennis http://www.webaxe.org/keep-the-underline-text-links/#comment-3142 Dennis Fri, 03 May 2013 15:23:51 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=945#comment-3142 You are obviously new to web accessibility. There’s a lot to learn my friend. PS: My point is not a “request”; it’s been a web standard for many years… PPS: Visually, Net Mag doesn’t remove the underline but modifies it, which is passable for me.

]]> Comment on Keep the Underline by Jonathan Metz http://www.webaxe.org/keep-the-underline-text-links/#comment-3141 Jonathan Metz Fri, 03 May 2013 12:55:48 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=945#comment-3141 I read about your request to keep text underlined from net magazine. This is not a badly designed web site. In addition to those notorious rivers of white space that are equally distracting on justified text (which doesn’t occur on net mag), leading can also cause distractions if there is a decorative element interrupting the normal spacing of each line.

I think I might be confused by your response though. Regardless of whether or not my issue lies with the content author/owner, your notion to universally retain underlines in links would affect me either way. Poorly designed sites exist the same as very well designed pages. In my opinion, keeping links underlined benefits only a certain population of users on the web and throws the rest of us under the bus.

]]> Comment on My Comment on “Tackling Accessibility on The Web” by Dennis http://www.webaxe.org/my-comment-on-tackling-accessibility-on-the-web/#comment-3136 Dennis Thu, 02 May 2013 17:26:59 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=988#comment-3136 Great comment, thank you!

]]> Comment on Keep the Underline by Dennis http://www.webaxe.org/keep-the-underline-text-links/#comment-3135 Dennis Thu, 02 May 2013 17:25:41 +0000 http://www.webaxe.org/?p=945#comment-3135 Yes, that would be a bit distracting. But your issue is with the content writer/owner, not the underline on the text links.

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