After a long discussion in the Dutch WordPress Slack, we discovered that there is much misunderstanding about when to underline links and when not. And is it even required by WCAG?
The reason this discussion came up was because of the T-shirt with the text Underline your f*cking links, you sociopaths, by Heydon Pickering.
So, we need a topic describing when to use underlining (or other means of distinguishing) a link in pieces text.
And also when not (link in a menu).
Beste practice: Underlining is a unspoken convention, everybody gets that underlined text is a link. As in don’t make me think.
We can reference this topic with the topic Link texts.
Joe make a great writeup about the topic on Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links.
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Resources:
After a long discussion in the Dutch WordPress Slack, we discovered that there is much misunderstanding about when to underline links and when not. And is it even required by WCAG?
The reason this discussion came up was because of the T-shirt with the text
Underline your f*cking links, you sociopaths, by Heydon Pickering.So, we need a topic describing when to use underlining (or other means of distinguishing) a link in pieces text.
And also when not (link in a menu).
Beste practice: Underlining is a unspoken convention, everybody gets that underlined text is a link. As in don’t make me think.
We can reference this topic with the topic Link texts.
Joe make a great writeup about the topic on Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links.
Related WCAG Success Criterion:
Resources: