Concerns about employees | The HCPC

Working with employers | The HCPC

Our CPD requirements | The HCPC

What we do | The HCPC

Quality assurance principles | The HCPC

Insights and data | The HCPC

Getting on the Register | The HCPC

Oversight | The HCPC

Raise a concern | The HCPC

Leaving the Register | The HCPC

Links must be appear visually distinct from regular text. A common mistake is to make links
only differ subtly in color. Users with visual impairments cannot see these links.   

There are two ways to comply with this requirement:

1. You can make links appear differently from regular text without relying on color alone.
   For example, you can add an underline to your links. This makes links easy to identify, even
   to people who cannot see color at all.
2. You can make links a color which is very different from the surrounding text (a 3:1 ratio), 
   AND ensure that when the link is selected with the keyboard or mouse that it appears   
   differently from regular text without relying on color alone.

Unless you have disabled the `outline` CSS style, links will automatically appear visually distinct
when selected with the keyboard.

link-contrast

October 2025

September 2025

Health and Care Professions Council

	Title / URL	Issues
	Concerns about employees \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/concerns-about-employees/	5
	Working with employers \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/about-us/who-we-work-with/employers/	5
	Our CPD requirements \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/cpd/our-cpd-requirements/	4
	What we do \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/	4
	Quality assurance principles \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/education/quality-assurance-principles/	3
	Insights and data \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/about-us/insights-and-data/	3
	Getting on the Register \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/registration/getting-on-the-register/	3
	Oversight \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/about-us/corporate-governance/oversight/	2
	Raise a concern \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/raising-concerns/public/	2
	Leaving the Register \| The HCPCwww.hcpc-uk.org/registration/leaving-the-register/	1

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

Health and Care Professions Council

Where this issue has occurred