Re:Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS
by silverwind on Friday May 24, 2024 @11:17AM
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Underline links are subjectively ugly and it looks like outdated design.
Re:Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS
by digging on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:15PM
(#40467619)
Those are objectively bad reasons for abdicating accessibility though.
Subjectively, I also don't agree that it's ugly. There are also other options like border-bottom or dashed underline or pseudo-elements with additional symbols.
(However, I'm not sure color-only link distinction is actually an issue. It's never been considered problematic in accessibility reviews of the corporate sites/apps I work on professionally.)
imo, if you're building a new library, this level of accessibility should be baked in. Given the aim of the library to have better css defaults, expecting developers to override the link styling to add underlines or expecting the users to install browser extensions to do that, feels like a weird requirement.