Help and news hyperlinks aren't easily seen

Bug #260340 reported by Matthew Revell
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad Blog WordPress Theme
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
Launchpad Help Wiki Moin theme
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The new stylesheets for the help wiki and news blogs display hyperlinks as green text, with no underline unless there's a mouse-over.

I think we should underline hyperlinks at all times, for the following reasons:

 * someone who cannot distinguish colour differences would find it very difficult, if not impossible, to see which text was linked
 * the grey of the standard text and the green of hyperlinks are of a similar darkness and so make the links less likely to stand out.

Revision history for this message
Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

Text has already been changed to be black (waiting for sync).
Will look into underlining links, or making them bold, to make them easier to distinguish.

Changed in launchpad-documentation:
assignee: nobody → beuno
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in launchpad-documentation:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Joey Stanford (joey)
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
assignee: nobody → beuno
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in launchpad-news-wordpress-theme:
assignee: Martin Albisetti (beuno) → nobody
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
assignee: Martin Albisetti (beuno) → nobody
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
status: In Progress → Triaged
Changed in launchpad-news-wordpress-theme:
status: In Progress → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Huw Wilkins (huwshimi) wrote :

We do not underline inks on other parts of Launchpad currently and the current Ubuntu web guidelines say not to have underlined links. I do understand the issues here and I have run these pages through a colour blindness simulator and the results are actually ok.

Huw Wilkins (huwshimi)
Changed in launchpad-help-moin-theme:
importance: Medium → Low
Changed in launchpad-news-wordpress-theme:
importance: Medium → Low
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