Office of the General Counsel

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law

What to Do

Resources

Who We Are

Dartmouth Copyright Statement & Guidelines

Attorneys and Staff

Educational Programs

The Attorney-Client Privilege

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

Dartmouth College

	Title / URL	Issues
	Office of the General Counselwww.dartmouth.edu/ogc/	1
	Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Lawwww.dartmouth.edu/copyright/peer2peer/	1
	What to Dowww.dartmouth.edu/ogc/advice/index.html	1
	Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Lawwww.dartmouth.edu/copyright/peer2peer/index.html	1
	Resourceswww.dartmouth.edu/security/resources/	1
	Who We Arewww.dartmouth.edu/security/who/	1
	Dartmouth Copyright Statement & Guidelineswww.dartmouth.edu/copyright/	1
	Attorneys and Staffwww.dartmouth.edu/ogc/attorneys.html	1
	Educational Programswww.dartmouth.edu/ogc/educational_programs.html	1
	The Attorney-Client Privilegewww.dartmouth.edu/ogc/privilege.html	1

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

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