Quality Standards | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Accessibility | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Newsletter

Manage volunteers | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Who We Work With | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Pages | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Funding | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Getting to BVSC | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Community Development Practice Hub | Home | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

BVSC Research Unit | Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

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

August 2025

July 2025

Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC)

Title / URL	Issues
Quality Standards \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/quality-standards	7
Accessibility \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/accessibility	6
Newsletterwww.bvsc.org/e-bulletin	3
Manage volunteers \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/manage-volunteers	3
Who We Work With \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/who-we-work-with	3
Pages \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/Pages/	2
Funding \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/funding	2
Getting to BVSC \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/getting-to-bvsc	1
Community Development Practice Hub \| Home \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/communitydevelopment	1
BVSC Research Unit \| Birmingham Voluntary Service Councilwww.bvsc.org/bvsc-research-unit	1

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC)

Where this issue has occurred