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The default aspect for links in a web page is blue and underlined. There is a good reason for this: it makes links very different from normal text: the blue color is very different from the black text color, and underlying links make them visible even for color-blind people, which make 10% of the male population. The web-platform theme uses undecorated links, and their color is very close to the normal text color. I'm only slightly color-blind, and I find it very hard to distinguish links from normal text, which is quite ironic for a web site about best practices of the web (which was invented to display hyper-text markup documents). This should really be fixed.
I second this notion, the contrast is almost invisible to me. May I suggest bumping up the brightness and saturation to something like #0086b3, and also the use of border-bottom:1px over text-decoration:underline, with a much lighter shade (e.g. #86b1b3). This avoids descenders being cut in half and the underline being too dark.
I agree. Extremely difficult to distinguish links. The hover colour would be more appropriate as the default anchor colour.
The contrast ratio between text and links is 1.2. It should be at least 2.
(In reply to comment #3) > The contrast ratio between text and links is 1.2. It should be at least 2. How about making them bold?
It should be enough in a first time but I fear it conflicts with stronged text.