Clickable Links Completely Invisible

[FireFist-Redhawk]

Can you tell which text in this article is actually a link to another page and what is just plain text? Or, like me, did you have to literally slide your cursor over each and every line to see what was and wasn't clickable? This might have happened as a result of the redesign, or maybe I'm just hoping it hasn't always been that way and I'm the first to say something about it. Make it bold, make it light blue, make it underlined, something. Not that I even wanted to click any of the links but still, I feel like this is a huge UX flaw.

And of course, it's not just that article. It appears to be a site-wide issue.

[Kristi_Martinez · Accepted solution]

Hi FireFist-Redhawk

Thank you for the feedback. I have passed your feedback along the web content team to review. 

[crossrulz]

If you look EXTREMELY close, you will see that the links are a dark shade of green.  I agree this is unacceptable.  The standard convention for the 25 years I have been on the internet is that links are a totally different color of text (typically blue vs black) and underlined.

[FireFist-Redhawk]

Yeah I saw, and if you open the link on the good ole fashioned Internet Explorer, the dark green is marginally more noticeable. Chrome and Edge are about the same (almost impossible to tell the difference), no idea about Firefox or Safari.

I actually copied the entire article into a Word doc and am currently color coding guidelines based on importance and how much I agree/disagree with them. And in the doc, the links are underlined so at least no more frantic mouse hovering to see what I can click 😂

[RavensFan]

Yep.  That is a side effect of the style change to the NI website of having this dark green theme.  The forum pages had a problem a couple times where fonts for read messages were bold and unread messages bolder, but the difference was so subtle you couldn't see it.

Here the difference between dark green and black is pretty indistinguishable with non-bold fonts because there just aren't enough pixels to truly see the color.