UX - accessibility - link perceptibility

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Where’s the link?

Of course, you can hover over words or randomly tap them, but it would be much better to make it clear where the link is. As the link in this banner stands, it’s failing on the P of POUR - Perceivable.

e.g.
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You could try Zwift orange. The contrast isn’t high enough, but it’s better than what we have now.

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While I’m here, standard post links aren’t great either.

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While they are visible to people with decent colour vision, they will be invisible to some posters.

It would be preferable to have them bold or underlined at least.

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(note, screenshots taken before I corrected Perceptible to Perceivable)

It could just say “click on this banner for details”

No, because the whole banner isn’t a target (and some people don’t “click”).

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And this isn’t even getting in to what a screen reader user will get. In this case, they’d tab to a link that says “see this thread” with zero context about why they might want to see that thread.

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This is a longstanding issue with the forum’s CSS that we’d like to address. Thank you for the nudge.

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