From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The `link' face.
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:33:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX365ZPFJ9qxq0eBAPYkJJbUNjo2ojKonHdt5AehLYmztq1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr560sqmm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 18:08, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> I think the "blue (or other different color) with an underline for
>> mouse highlighting" that are used by some designers have been found to
>> be less efficient and is regarded as a bad accessability choice. (In
>
> Clearly it has to depend on the particular use, because it can render
> the text more legible, which is more efficient if the point is mostly
> for people to read the text rather than to follow the link.
I think the broader context from the web jumps in through exemplar
learning. Then I believe most people do want a slightly colored
underline face for links because that is how they have learned to
understand that visual clue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 14:15 The `link' face Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 14:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-08 14:46 ` Bastien
2011-07-08 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 16:33 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-07-08 14:49 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-07-08 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 15:32 ` Chong Yidong
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