On Don, 2003-01-02 at 15:22, Jimmy Wales wrote:
You didn't quite say anything like this, but
there's a risk here of an
attitude: "If the blind people don't like the default underlining,
they can always go into the options settings and do this, or they can
always write their own CSS style sheet to do that." That's a bad
attitude. Blind people just won't bother. Color blind people who
find the site unusable aren't likely to bother, either. They'll just
go away sad.
1) The site is not unusable if the broken/non-broken indicator is not
displayed.
2) Using an indicator like the previous ugly ? as the default has a
negative usability effect on a much larger number of users.
3) The proper thing to do is to enable CSS for text-to-speech and
Braille readers in order to transmit the link state information without
a notable effect on average users.
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