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Originally Posted by MidiMagic 
There is a BIG problem with making links anything other than standard colors: accessibility.
There are settings in browsers that disable the ability to change link colors on web pages. So some people get cute with the links, and the link disappears entirely on a browser with link color disabled, because it matches the background.
Don't change the link colors.
who disables link colors? i've never heard of this. I've never even seen an option like that in any brower.
i don't think you need to worry about the 0.000002 % of users that have link colors disabled.
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That depends on whether the browser allows overriding the background color. I know that one that didn't existed.
And some sites use a background image instead of a background color, and it messes up if the link color is overridden.
The main point is to realize that such overrides exist, and design with the possibility that either or both the text and the background color can be overridden. Accessibility is a valid issue.
And some sites use a background image instead of a background color, and it messes up if the link color is overridden.
The main point is to realize that such overrides exist, and design with the possibility that either or both the text and the background color can be overridden. Accessibility is a valid issue.
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Originally Posted by John A
...you're joking, right? Ignoring the aesthetically unpleasant look that would bring to your website, not changing the link colors does exactly what? Right. You'd have to change your background color one way or another.
The site owner was trying to emulate the look of the old WordPerfect screen. It was white text on a blue background.
Who made you the aesthetics cop?
I am sick of websites with a curved logo image in the upper left hand corner.
My rainbow-colored page was about color mixing. The idea was to click on the color you wanted to mix. I had to change it so there was a small text box inside each color patch, with a gray background and blue text.
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