Re: [gNewSense-users] new homepage 1st draft

[Sam Geeraerts]

Graziano Sorbaioli wrote:
> > 2. I'd *change the color for visited links* in the navigation bar. I
> > think this is what Sam was talking about:
> >   
> > *see the screenshot in (1) again*
> >    
>
> changing the visited link colour is something nobody should do for
> usability and accessibility reasons.
>
> Users are accustomed to see certain links colours and nowadays is not a
> good idea to start changing them.
>
>
> Some suggestions about this issue?

That's only true for links inside a text block. Menus usually show 
regular text and change the background (or foreground) color of the item 
that is being hovered over or the 'current' menu item instead of having 
(different shades of) blue underlined text. For example, see www.gnome.org.