Parents | Colby College

Authentication Required · Colby College

Employment | Human Resources | Colby College

Centers of Thought, Impact, and Action | Colby College

People | Colby College

Academics | Colby College

Visit | Colby College

Majors and Minors | Colby College

Resources | Colby College

Sitemap | Colby College

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

June 2025

May 2025

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Title / URL	Issues
Parents \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/parents/	12
Authentication Required · Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/ColbyMaster/login/?https://www.colby.edu/now/	7
Employment \| Human Resources \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/humanresources/employment/	2
Centers of Thought, Impact, and Action \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/academics/centers-of-thought-impact-action/	1
People \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/people/	1
Academics \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/academics/	1
Visit \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/visit/	1
Majors and Minors \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/	1
Resources \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/resources/	1
Sitemap \| Colby Collegewww.colby.edu/sitemap/	1

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

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