User:Torisugari~enwiki

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MediaWiki and Web Accessibility
Now we have the Recommendation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

Link without underline
According to Techniques for WCAG 2.0 F73, Wikipedia and other members of MW family are failures.

 This failure helps ensure that people who cannot perceive color differences can identify links. Link underlines or some other non-color visual distinction are required. While some links may be visually evident from page design and context, such as navigational links, links within text are often visually understood only from their own display attributes. Removing the underline and leaving only the color difference for such links would be a failure because there would be no other visual indication (besides color) that it is a link.

This exactly applies to MediaWiki, because it layouts links only by colors, unless user's mouse cursors are on those words. More precisely, pages which specify their styles with simple/main.css, modern/main.css or monobook/main.css(default).

Note that there are some merits to break this rule. For example, it's easier to distinguish some letters such as " " and "_". Think about "L_I L_I I" and "L_I L_I I". However, in the first place, MediaWiki doesn't distinguish " " and "_" within the link words. "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" and "Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines" are equivalent.

It's time to switch the default style from monobook to another one, isn't it?

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