Use visited link colors Usability Guideline

Description

Use color changes to indicate to users when a link has been visited. This page sets identical colors for visited and unvisited links.

Help

Generally, it is best to use the default text link colors (blue as an unvisited location/link and purple as a visited location/link). Link colors help users understand which parts of a Web site they have visited.

Applicable standards

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

  • 6.49 May 2023 Removed since :visited never matches in incognito mode.
  • 6.47 Dec 2022 Fixed false positive.
  • 5.33 Apr 2019 Fixed false positive.
  • 5.28 Dec 2017 Fixed false negative.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov10.7