Please remove text-decoration: none on links!

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/* module-key = 'com.atlassian.auiplugin:aui-link', location = 'src/less/aui-link.less' */
a {
    color: #0052cc;
    text-decoration: none
}

This is highly problematic for accessibility. Information and formatting is critical to the web. Please underline links so that critical linked information can be distinguished from other text.

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Ahh, the good old request for hyperlinks to be underlined.

The arguments for and against have raged across the internet for decades, but a change of text color / underline on mouseOver won the war long ago, so you’re fighting for a lost cause there @DamonCook :slight_smile:

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The internet changes just like everything in life and nothing is carved in stone.

Using color to indicate meaning or function does not help folks that may be color blind, which is actually quite a significant population on this earth.

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Welcome to the Atlassian developer community @DamonCook,

Although our UI styling & components do constrain what you can build as apps on top, I think you’re making a general appeal about our products:

This dev community forum is mostly in the service of the former, with developers who are building on top of our extensibility. As such, Atlassian would not consider this topic an official feature request. I recommend opening a case via Atlassian customer support. Or, perhaps there is an appropriate issue already filed about “color blind accessibility” where you could watch, vote, and comment?

I fully understand your point about accessibility. Indeed, I have a red/brown color-blindness. Fortunately, it has little impact on my ability to see the current blue-differentiated hyperlinks, but I can certainly imagine what things would be like if hyperlinks were red with background text as brown (a combination that I have struggled with on other products). While @sunnyape doesn’t speak for Atlassian officially, he does speak from experience: Atlassian does seem unlikely to switch to underlines for hyperlinks. Regardless, that’s valid feedback and I just want to see it get to the right place.

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