Links in the Django admin should be underlined.

[Dmitriy Chukhin]

In the Django admin, some fields have text with an anchor link, and this text appears without an indication that it is a link.
The text should appear with an indication (an underline), to meet accessibility guidelines.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for the ticket, however, this was discussed as a part of #34038, and at the end removed from the recommendation.

[Thibaud Colas]

@Marius I do not know what discussion you’re referring to in #34038 but the resolution isn’t appropriate. Links need to be clearly identifiable. There needs to be a way to tell the links apart from surrounding text without relying on color. The current styles implemented in the admin are so bad I’d qualify this as a release blocker if the changes were made in the last release.

As a practical example, it is more or less impossible to identify where links are in help text:

As far as this issue about _links within text_, I would recommend:

• A minimum contrast ratio of ideally 4.5:1, at the vey least 3:1 between link text color and text color. Currently we’re somewhere around 1.6:1 to 2.2:1 in the light theme, which is unacceptable.
• And an underline, for people who have severe color blindness.

For links outside text there are more options. I also think the current design choices aren’t fit for purpose but that likely warrants a separate ticket as the resolution could be very different from what makes sense for links within text.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

The current styles implemented in the admin are so bad I’d qualify this as a release blocker if the changes were made in the last release.

Why as a release blocker? We can decide that #34038 is not completely fixed without an underline, but 1d0fa848e084cad62d0bb6bde3b51e4862558e57 didn't introduce any regression so it's not a release blocker.

Closing as a duplicate of #34038.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

I reopened #34038.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Reopen for adding underline to links in the admin.

Marking as "Someday/Maybe" pending a discussion by the Accessibility Team to determine the scope of required changes.

[Tom Carrick]

So we've had a brief discussion and we've agreed that links in the "main content area" should be underlined.

My personal thought on "main content area" is "not the header or nav sidebar".

I think this should ideally exclude the site index and app index pages (they're quite clear), but acceptable if these are underlined as well.

There will probably also be other exceptions such as pagination links and other links that look like buttons, but I think we can tease those out in a review.

[Tim Graham]

I believe the ​PR is awaiting review.