Reference doi link compliance

[zbrookshowe]

According to the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Checklist under Sec. 2, Fonts and Text Readability, hyperlinks must be “must be underlined, and clearly distinguishable to meet color contrast requirements.” In its BibLaTeX implementation for reference formatting, this template does not meet this requirement, as it has the code

\usepackage[hidelinks,pdfusetitle]{hyperref}

in line 33. A possible fix is to use in its place

\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=cyan, pdfusetitle, linktocpage=true, pdfborderstyle={/S/U/W 1}, allbordercolors=cyan]{hyperref}

however there is still a small bug in this implementation, in that the underline color does not match the text color of the links when this is used.

[mphoward]

Thanks for reporting. @clpetix and I iterated through many attempts to make these links format properly, and we landed on the one in the document because of issues like what you're reporting.

If you are discussing this issue with the graduate school, can you please let us know what they are willing to accept in terms of link formatting? We can then push a fix. I started to do this in #2 due to tagging issues with indexes, so we can finish it there.

Just FYI for you and others: I asked the Graduate School to review the sample template in May, and they did not request any formatting changes. Hence, they either missed these elements in May or they have changed their standards. I'm sorry if that is causing you issues now, but we will work to address them as quickly as possible.

[mphoward]

I could not get the underline to consistently work in my TeX compiler, but in #10 I typeset links in a color that should have sufficient contrast on its own and also added a nohyperref option to disable hyperlinks if desired.