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In the Activity dashboard widget, the comment author and post links sit inside a sentence and are distinguished from the surrounding text by color alone, which axe-core reports as a link-in-text-block violation.

#dashboard-widgets li a removes the underline from every link inside a dashboard widget list item, including the two links in the .comment-meta sentence. This patch restores text-decoration: underline for links within .comment-meta.

The row action and footer links, which context already distinguishes as links, are unchanged.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/66017

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I think there's a more efficient change.

Comment thread src/wp-admin/css/dashboard.css Outdated
color: #646970;
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#latest-comments #the-comment-list .comment-meta a {

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Let's not add new selectors here. I think it would be better to add this context as an exclusion on line 1069, above, so that the decoration isn't unset.

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#dashboard-widgets li:not(.comment) a,

itzmekhokan and others added 2 commits September 8, 2026 17:20
In the Recent Comments section of the Activity dashboard widget, the
comment author and post links sit inside a sentence and were
distinguished from the surrounding text by color alone, which fails
WCAG SC 1.4.1 Use of Color.

`#dashboard-widgets li a` removes the underline from every link in a
dashboard widget list item. Restore it for the links inside
`.comment-meta`, leaving the row action and footer links, which are
distinguishable by context, unchanged.

Fixes #66017.
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afercia force-pushed the fix/dashboard-activity-link-underline branch from 6240cc8 to 0891dd2 Compare September 8, 2026 15:20
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I pushed a commit to use :not() and also to exclude the links for 'Publishing Soon' and 'Recently Published'. Screenshot before and after:

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wporg-sync pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
…guished from surrounding text.

Links within blocks of text must be distinguished in a way that does not rely on color.

Developed in #13357

Props khokansardar, afercia, joedolson.
Fixes #66017.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@63536 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
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A commit was made that fixes the Trac ticket referenced in the description of this pull request.

SVN changeset: 63536
GitHub commit: 7ff053b

This PR will be closed, but please confirm the accuracy of this and reopen if there is more work to be done.

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…guished from surrounding text.

Links within blocks of text must be distinguished in a way that does not rely on color.

Developed in WordPress/wordpress-develop#13357

Props khokansardar, afercia, joedolson.
Fixes #66017.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@63536


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@62712 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
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