NHS England » Blog posts

NHS England » Dr Vin Diwakar

NHS England » Virtual wards

NHS England » Claire Morris

NHS England » James McLean

NHS England » Claire Murdoch

NHS England » Professor Bola Owolabi

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

September 2025

August 2025

NHS England & NHS Improvement

	Title / URL	Issues
	NHS England » Blog postswww.england.nhs.uk/blog/page/2/	7
	NHS England » Dr Vin Diwakarwww.england.nhs.uk/author/dr-vin-diwakar/	7
	NHS England » Blog postswww.england.nhs.uk/blog/page/3/	5
	NHS England » Blog postswww.england.nhs.uk/blog/	5
	NHS England » Blog postswww.england.nhs.uk/blog/?filter-category=ltc	5
	NHS England » Virtual wardswww.england.nhs.uk/virtual-wards/	3
	NHS England » Claire Morriswww.england.nhs.uk/author/claire-morris/	3
	NHS England » James McLeanwww.england.nhs.uk/author/james-mclean/	3
	NHS England » Claire Murdochwww.england.nhs.uk/author/claire-murdoch/	3
	NHS England » Professor Bola Owolabiwww.england.nhs.uk/author/dr-bola-owolabi/	3

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

NHS England & NHS Improvement

Where this issue has occurred