Earn a Cornell University Advanced Certificate in Executive Talent

AESC Conferences | AESC

Professional Development for Executive Search Specialists

Sign In | AESC

Overview | AESC

Newsroom | AESC

Executive Search Consultants and Top Executive Search Firms | AESC

Executive Talent Insider | AESC

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

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Title / URL	Issues
Earn a Cornell University Advanced Certificate in Executive Talentwww.aesc.org/Cornell	12
AESC Conferences \| AESCwww.aesc.org/events/conferences	7
Professional Development for Executive Search Specialistswww.aesc.org/education	5
Sign In \| AESCwww.aesc.org/insights/emagazine	4
Sign In \| AESCwww.aesc.org/login	4
Sign In \| AESCwww.aesc.org/events/forums	4
Overview \| AESCwww.aesc.org/profession/overview	4
Newsroom \| AESCwww.aesc.org/insights/news	3
Executive Search Consultants and Top Executive Search Firms \| AESCwww.aesc.org/members	2
Executive Talent Insider \| AESCwww.aesc.org/insights/blog	2

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

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