[Sigia-l] readability and contextual linking

[Bill Pawlak]

I'm not advocating avoiding them altogether and I even stated so in
the article "However, since at some point you're going to have to use
inline links, consider the following: ..."

And a caution against decreasing contrast too much...  Although we
don't want them to scream "I'm here!" we also don't want them to be so
hidden that people can't find them, like you said.  Underline is good.

bill

> There are some good tips there, Bill, although I don't agree with
> avoiding them altogether. They can be useful. I think you can enhance
> readability through better visual design. I believe it works if the
> contrast between regular text and links decreases with the density of
> links. (But never reduced so much that you can't tell the difference
> and therefore scanning for links is impossible.)
>