I'm looking at a (pretty famous video game design outfit's) Tumblr blog on my phone, as one does when they wake up stupidly early.

Not only is https://blog.camposanto.com/post/171638832704/zora-is-one-of-the-two-main-characters-in-our a fascinating and informative post about character design, it also has well-written, descriptive links.

But none of them have underlining or other visual decoration!

So I literally just spent a couple minutes pawing at my phone like a confused animal to see which words would magically, unpredictably open up new links.

Why do inaccessible designs like this keep happening?‽

Campo Santo

Zora is one of the two main characters in our second game, In the Valley of Gods. Quite a few people remarked on Zora’s character design, in particular her hair, when they saw our announcement...

Tumblr

Are undecorated links what Tumblr has chosen to do on mobile lately? I don't remember it being that way, but I almost always used Tumblr in its app on mobile.

Are both mobile Firefox and Safari somehow interpreting the css wrong and breaking #accessibily features?

Or does someone at #CampoSanto need a reminder about how links need to be recognizable as links? https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/#controls

Checklist - The A11Y Project

A beginner's guide to digital accessibility.