Not only that, using color to communicate anything is a violation of
accessibility standards. Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities
states that specifically. That is one of 16 technical points along with
the Preamble web designers already ought have known for the last few
years.
I have, in the past, helped a person with limited eyesight. He would use a Linux Text Screen, and lynx as his Browser, and then have a special Screen-reading Program.
So I brought up
https://www.debian.org under lynx, to see how the Download Link looked. The same wording ( "Download Debian 10.5(64-bit PC Network installer)" ) was on its own line, as a usable Link.
I'd say this Website passes Muster better than many others.
Kenneth Parker
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:26
> From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is the download page?
> Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:25:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 02:56:45PM -0400, Lars Blizard wrote:
> > where is the download page?
>
> https://www.debian.org/
>
> has a link that says "Getting Debian", and it also has a green download
> icon thingy embedded in the huge banner.
>
> (I've told people before that putting important things in web banners is
> a bad idea, because decades of the web have trained us not to look at
> web banners.)