A few days ago, I posted about adjacent non-underlined links in blog posts and the trouble they can cause for your readers with (and without!) visual disabilities. I've also written a section of How To Make Your Blog Accessible that deals with choosing a link color that your readers can actually distinguish from your text if for some reason you can't stand to underline your links.
The following quote is relevant to both of those topics and I just had to share it. It's by By Joe Clark, from his book Building Accessible Websites
It is bad usability and certainly bad accessibility to force people to scrub the mouse all over the screen until the cursor changes into a link indicator because they have no other way of finding the links on the page.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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