cmarshall - 4:40 pm on Feb 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

Sorry but, best way to turn people off accessability - tell them they must use a colour.

Oh, no, no, no. The best way to turn a designer off of ANYTHING is to tell them to do something, or give them restrictions. I've been working with top-shelf designers for quite some time, and they react...less than favorably...to ANY types of restrictions. Working with designers is ALWAYS a tug-of-war (at least the good designers).

Most designers I know have Jakob Nielsen dartboards in their offices.

If the bar is don't do anything that will make a designer squirm, then you are in for a long, lonely, designer-less future.

cmarshall What happens when those blue/red links are on a red/blue background?

Actually, I do exactly that in a highly accessible site I've designed. The link is still underlined, but the color is different, and is surrounded by another color that snaps in :hover. It is, very obviously, a link, but you can't do that for every link embedded in your main content.

If your main content is deep blue or red, then you might as well forget all about accessibility.

As I have stated before, I design sites that can save lives. If someone dies because I want to drink some academic Kool-Aid or express my inner Warhol, then I shouldn't be designing these sites, as I'm just going to kill people.