452750 - Dusk "visited" links are hard to distinguish from black bold text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[timeless]

Attachment: picture

i looked at the admin page w/ dusk and i thought that the things were titles and not links, because i'd visited them and it's hard to distinguish the color from black....

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This is true, but is actually much broader--they're hard to distinguish virtually everywhere, as pointed out by pyrzak's students' research. We need a general lighter color for visited links in Dusk.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: Screenshot of New Color Scheme

With a little help from colorschemedesigner.com I changed the link colors in Dusk. I also had to change the quoted-text color, because the original quoted-text color was too close to the "visited link" color.

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v1

And here is the actual patch that implements that screen.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 373412 [details]
Screenshot of New Color Scheme

Wow, I think green on grey is bad for users with visual disabilities. I know a friend who (I'm pretty sure) would have problems to read the quoted text. The contrast must be larger.

Comment 5

[Guy Pyrzak]

Comment on attachment 373413 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

look at the search page. i still can't tell what is a link!

Comment 6

[Guy Pyrzak]

Attachment: still can't find the link

Comment 7

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v2

Actually, surprisingly, the default link color actually works the best.

I used colorschemegenerator to find a color that would match with the Dusk comment background, for the quote color, and I think it looks fairly nice. (It's  a sort of faint brownish-red.)

Comment 8

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: Screenshot

Here's what it looks like on a bug.

Comment 9

[Guy Pyrzak]

Comment on attachment 379029 [details] [diff] [review]
v2

still looks like normal text on the search page

Comment 10

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v3

Okay, here we go. As discussed, this adds underlines to the Dusk links.

Comment 11

[Guy Pyrzak]

Comment on attachment 395147 [details] [diff] [review]
v3

looks great!

Comment 12

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Checking in skins/contrib/Dusk/global.css;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/skins/contrib/Dusk/global.css,v  <--  global.css
new revision: 1.8; previous revision: 1.7
done

Comment 13

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Added to the release notes in bug 547466.