News & Insights - NIC

Rob Mallows, Author at NIC

Energy & Waste - NIC

Environment - NIC

Transport - NIC

Place - NIC

Water & Floods - NIC

Digital & Data - NIC

First time visit: View without clicking anything

Governance - NIC

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

National Infrastructure Commission

Title / URL	Issues
News & Insights - NICnic.org.uk/news-insights/	16
Rob Mallows, Author at NICnic.org.uk/author/robmallows/	15
Energy & Waste - NICnic.org.uk/themes/energy-waste/	11
Environment - NICnic.org.uk/themes/environment/	11
Transport - NICnic.org.uk/themes/transport/	9
Place - NICnic.org.uk/themes/place/	8
Water & Floods - NICnic.org.uk/themes/water-floods/	7
Digital & Data - NICnic.org.uk/themes/digital-data/	6
First time visit: View without clicking anythingnic.org.uk/	3
Governance - NICnic.org.uk/about/governance/	3

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

National Infrastructure Commission

Where this issue has occurred