Please let me decide how to colour hyperlinks on hover, select
Aug 21, 2013
First off, I have to say that I hate the on hover 80% opacity thing. My design requires two colours of text (black on white, and white on blue) - what this means is that the theme only allows me to select one type of behaviour for hyperlinks.
Then my users see these ugly boxes (the 80% opacity - which does not make sense when your text is WHITE!).
Visited links get the opacity box, but when you mouse over them and then leave, the box goes away. This is totally not obvious or intuitive behaviour for users!
I get that I can choose not to use hyperlinks, but rather use transparent hot spots or boxes over the text, but that is an ugly work around that takes me more time to program (as I also need to manually change the colour of my text and add underlines). As a rapid elearning tool, any workaround that takes more time is not desirable.
A better solution would be to allow me to EDIT the hover and visited behaviour. I'd rather have hover do NOTHING, and have the links that have been visited change colour - as that would be much more intuitive for learners. That or have both do nothing and just look like the original hyperlink.
6 Replies
Hi Rebecca,
Not sure what advice to give you, but this article speaks to the different design/usability criteria, and links to recent research.
Hope it helps!
Carlos
Yes, exactly. So the hover behaviour is NOT what hyperlinks look like, and it certainly never has a "fill". In many cases a hyperlink will have a different colour if it has be "visited".
So, what I'm asking is to not have Articulate do some "clever" non-standard behaviour on links, because it is screwing up my design and my users are complaining that the system is acting in a non-standard and unpredictable manner.
You could use a text object with states and a "Jump to URL/file" trigger, instead of the built-in hyperlink...
Hi Rebecca! Just let us know how the suggestion that Carlos has offered works for you and if you need anything further.
Auto-colored auto-hover is gross design decision that really frustrates me. Please make this terrible "feature" optional, as in, get rid of it!
Hi Shyla and welcome to the Heroes community,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts in this thread, and you'll also want to send this in as a feature request as those go directly to our product development team for review and inclusion in future versions.
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