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Consider removing link ink skipping #313
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I would be in favour of reverting it again. Evidence from a single user: It actually has happened to me that I opened the same page twice because I didn't realise that it was the same link. |
To the contrary in 4 rounds of research on GOV.UK since this was deployed we haven't seen any issues with people getting confused. |
I wonder if we might be able to test anything in analytics related to this - any ideas? Perhaps: number of people opening the same link twice from one source page - ie clicking both parts because they thought they were two links. |
Will discuss with Vin when he is back from leave as we are already measuring this stuff for navigation. Not sure if we will have any significant findings however. |
On the other hand, have there ever been users in user research who said anything ever about underlining or had issues with a link because it wasn't beautifully enough underlined? ;-) |
Just to clarify the original change was to make links (in lists) more legible - not just a cosmetic change. I'd be 👍 to revert since Chrome doesnt seem to render these as well as Safari 😢 |
@alextea I think it's less about getting confused and more about cognitive load and readability. As discussed with @NickColley, words containing |
@selfthinker it's not about what they say, but we have observed that in some circumstances users don't recognise text as links when it is not underlined. |
I'm also in favour of reverting btw. |
To be clear, are we considering actively disabling it in Safari (where it's on by default) or are we just talking about removing the 'opt in' for Chrome? |
We added underline skipping to hopefully make some content easier to read but looking at some examples as seen at #313 Chrome does a poor job of rendering underlines resulting in potentially confusing underlines that look like punctuation This revert puts our links back to the 'boring' state of doing nothing special.
Fixed by #316. |
Did anyone file a bug with Chrome about this issue? Would be good to reinstate in future if they fix their rendering. |
In #281 we added
text-decoration-skip: ink;
to skip underlines near descenders - in theory because it looks better.I wonder if we should reconsider this decision.
There are many examples where it makes single links look like multiple links. Are we happy with this?
NB - it generally looks better in Safari which doesn't skip as much.
Discuss.
Chrome
Safari
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