Plugin Theme: Make Links accessible in Plugin Directory

[Travel_girl]

Links are not underlined in the Plugin Directory which makes it hard noticed that there are links, when they are in the middle of the text.

Also it can be impossible to see them as links, when people are colorblind or using the site, while the sun is really bride or on a beamer.

I suggest to underline the links who are in the middle of the text:

#description a:not(.button), a:not(.button):hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

#faq a:not(.button), a:not(.button):hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

[Travel_girl]

Current View, links are not underlined

[Travel_girl]

Suggestion: make links underlined in text

[samuelsidler]

@mapk: Thoughts on adding underline here for accessibility?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Adding the underline would be consistent with the changes made in #2542 for Support Theme.

[mapk]

I'm for adding the underline, but then I question its consistency throughout. Should we also make ALL the links underlined? Or maybe just the link in the main content area and not in the sidebar?

Any thoughts?

[Travel_girl]

I personal would not underlined the link in the sidebar, as they are standing alone (and not in the middle of text) so its easier to see them as links.

[Travel_girl]

I just wrote a patch for that.

But the same issue is also in the Theme-directory.

[Travel_girl]

Patch: underline Links in Plugin directory

[Travel_girl]

Underline theme author in Theme Directory

[SergeyBiryukov]

2696.diff​ applies the underline globally, which results in some unintended side effects, e.g. the site-title heading has the underline as well: 2696.site-title.png​.

Per discussion above, I think it's better to limit this to the content area. 2696.2.diff​ does just that. It would be consistent with Support Forums and the ​News blog.

[Travel_girl]

I agree on that. Only the links in the content area needs to be underlined and the links in the locale-banner to translate the plugin.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to Travel_girl:

Only the links in the content area needs to be underlined and the links in the locale-banner to translate the plugin.

Not sure about the locale banner, the main ​https://wordpress.org/ site doesn't underline links there.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5856:

Plugin Directory: Underline links in content area for better accessibility.

Props Travel_girl.
Fixes #2696.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5933:

Plugin Directory: Don't underline links styled as buttons.

See #2696.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Not sure about the locale banner, the main ​https://wordpress.org/ site doesn't underline links there.

Follow-up: #4250