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Visual Design Recommendations

Checkpoint 5.10 - Mobile-PDA

The default link display has not been changed

WCAG 1.0 Priority 2

WCAG Guideline 13. Provide clear navigation mechanisms.

Users should be able to easily recognize a hyperlink to other pages. One way of ensuring this it so keep the default colour of the link, as well as any other default style and format, so that users can take this learned knowledge across pages displayed on the mobile device and work with content more efficiently.

Requirement

The default link display has not been changed

Recommendation

Do not style these with CSS

Checking Tool

View the page in a mobile device and ensure that the links remain the default blue/purple colour.

Information Source

The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site  (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-clear-nav-mechanism)

 

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