Opened links impossible to see on SCN!

[Jelena]

The text in the screenshot below includes a hyperlink, which I have previously opened, so it's not a blue color anymore. Can anyone see it? Double points if you are over 40 or have been wearing glasses / contact lenses for years already.

Change the color from "slightly less blurry gray" to something readable! I hope we don't need an "idea" and a committee to do this. It's not Jive anymore, so no excuses please.

Thank you.

[Jelena]

Mark, I believe the source link I mentioned in another comment here (can you see it? it's in nice light beige color for me 🙂 ) would be the right place to discuss that.

[jerryjanda · Accepted solution]

Well if this was a sinister attempt to drive away our valued veteran members, then it's certainly also aimed at some of the older employees -- as I'm also part of the glasses-wearing, (way) over 40 crowd.

Reading this, I had a sense of deja vu -- as though I had seen this concern raised before. But I can't find that conversation, so maybe it's my advanced age playing tricks on my mind.

Regardless, I've made a note to include this in our ongoing UX/UI conversations...

Best regards,

--Jerry

[Jelena · Accepted solution]

Jerry, I had the same feeling and it could've been mentioned anywhere in passing or among [many] other issues. But when I was entering this question the hillbilly AI that suggests "similar posts" didn't find anything, so I thought I'd make an official entry.

Now if you excuse me an urgent matter of the kids on the lawn requires my attention. 🙂

[jcgood25]

Did the image disappear like snapchat? I can't see the image...(joking of course). My 40+ eyes with no corrective vision can fortunately see the 'idea' you are mentioning, but if you consider the post and treat the text you supplied on either side of the embedded picture as a part of the overall post, you have far exceeded 140 characters and with it the attention span of many people (much like I just did with this answer).

Like with online headlines, email newsletters, and many other information feeds we see on a daily or hourly bases, we are drowning in electronic screen text overload, and the light gray on white just doesn't provide enough contrast to stand out. When we scan through content, links, bold text, paragraph indentations, etc. need to be prominent and not blend into the background. Seems quite simple to fix: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link.asp

@Jelena - I know I visited the Leonardo blog because I read your comments, but yet here it was - a bold blue hyperlink that never changed color: http://www.sap.com/index.html

[Jelena]

Jeremy - this is actually another UI issue, I believe. The screenshots are very difficult to tell from the surrounding text. I've been confused by this on several occasions already. None of this was ever an issue on SCN, as I recall.

[jcgood25]

Sorry, sometimes my sarcasm or jokes are a bit too deep or far reaching humor. I was attempting to tie in Twitter, Snapchat, and the instant gratification/social media that is prevalent in much of the world as we know it today (much like all the other conversations about the 'ago' concepts in the feed. You do bring up a valid point about a picture not having any placeholder option or distinguishing look and feel, but to be honest, the use case of embedding screen captures from a block of text from another SAP Community post is not something that I remember having much need for in the past. Typically it would be images of slides, diagrams, etc. and there would be plenty of contrast with the surrounding text. Although as I just discovered in Messages, clicking on an image makes it appear actual size in a popup view --> did that one ever get resolved here in the community? Picture zooming like we had in Jive when reducing the scale of uploaded images.

[VolkerBarth]

No, being over 40 and wearing glasses, I don't have an idea.

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(Sorry, inevitable pun.)

[JL23]

idea - far over 40 and wearing glasses for almost 40 years

But I understand what you mean and would also like a better presentation to identify links more easily. This all worked well more than 20 years in the Internet before somebody thought that pale grey is the new standard.

On the other hand it is only for you pale gray because you have accessed this link before. The user who reads your answer is seeing it in blue until (s)he follows the link.

[Matt_Fraser]

I'm of the opinion that the recent proliferation of difficult-to-distinguish fonts and colors (not just here, but the latest versions of MS Office/Outlook as well) is all part of a sinister plot to convince those with older eyes that our vision is worse than it really is so that we'll move on to "greener pastures" and make way for the younger crowd.

[JL23]

ha ha, the younger crowd can't even see the long text of a message or the Z in front of its number, might not be the right benchmark

[Jelena]

This is the source: https://answers.sap.com/articles/114948/replace-activities-and-notifications-with-a-fiori.html

[raghug]

And I thought I was just struggling with my vision lately, I was just about to get it checked out. Now that I know it is just a Gen-"whatever" plot, I will cancel that appointment.