The color links turn when you've visited them is too close to black. I am red/green colorblind and it's very hard to tell that text is a link when it's been visited. We should find a color that works better for the colorblind, or otherwise distinguish them (underlines would be preferred).
Here's some good accessibility thoughts on the matter:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/guidelines-for-visualizing-links/
Quote:
Summary: Textual links should be colored and underlined to achieve the best perceived affordance of clickability
I can't find any styling on the site that actually seems to apply a special color to :visited links, even by searching the source code. Where do you see this?
I was wrong that it's visited links. It's just any links depending on context. E.g.
Wiki doesn't look like a link to me.
I agree it would be reasonable to add an affordance to links in flow content throughout the site, but actually doing so without also making other links (mostly for navigation) look bad is moderately difficult (because it all currently assumes links are not underlined by default).
An option that I think looks okay, at least for links in posts:
Code: a {
text-decoration: underline #ee9090;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration-color: #a00;
}
That sounds reasonable to me! That would definitely help a lot.
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