Re: [boost] New boost webpage

From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-08 15:59:57

Rene Rivera wrote:
> When the same issues came up during the design, many months ago, I went 
> trough many, more than 30, variations to try and find that color you are 
> searching for now. I ended up with the current design where using color 
> for links just gets in the way of readability, regardless of color. 
> Hence why it's using underlines, and leaving the text color uniform. 
> Unless the link status can be seen from the context as it is on the 
> sidebar menus, where everything is a link and therefore don't have 
> underlines.

A general accessibility guideline is that you shouldn't rely only on 
colour to indicate links, because it'll cause problems for the colour 
blind. So this seems the right way to go.

http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_12_using_color_safely.html

Daniel