Re; How to remove the underline on links

Hello Kukla Fran, Ollie and Wendy

I just tried it out, hover works also in Netscape 6 and Opera5

I have private web design teachings from a member of the W3C Accessibility
Guidelines Group, who learnt me this.. and I have the 508 section text here
in the Netherlands.

Where is  written in section 508 that you cannot use hover?? Your links must
have a colour different from any textcolour.in your site. For usability you
must use  them in the default colours.. blue and purple.. as Jakob Nielsen
asserts..  that's what you want to say??

Greetings
Ineke




----- Original Message -----
From: "Kukla Fran and Ollie" <weblists2001(at)yahoo.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Cc: "Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa(at)xs4all.nl>; "catwoman"
<catwoman(at)enter.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: Re; How to remove the underline on links


> Clarification - Hover works only with IE.
>
> Observation - Be careful when deciding to remove underlining with
> links.  While many consider underling to be visually unattractive and thus
> intrude upon the designer's possible intent for a page (or an entire
site),
> most users rely on the visual underline clues to tell them that a link
> exists.   The decision to remove underlines means the designer is going
> against accepted norms for user interaction of a web site, and what users
> have come to expect.
>
> In addition, one must be careful when removing underline links in that the
> removal does not constitute a potential violation of Section 508 laws (US
> laws) with respect to accessibility.  If you are unaware of Section 508 it
> behooves you to learn rather quickly.
>
>

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