Our achievements | UON

Open Day | UON

Accessibility | UON

Before you arrive | UON

Clearing | UON

University Open Days | UON

Clearing at UON: A Lecturer’s Experience | UON

International | UON

Research and Innovation Support | UON

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

University of Northampton

Title / URL	Issues
Our achievements \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/about-us/our-achievements/	24
Open Day \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/events/14october2023open-day/	14
Open Day \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/events/11november2023open-day/	14
Accessibility \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/about-us/accessibility/	14
Before you arrive \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/student-life/new-students/before-you-arrive/	12
Clearing \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/clearing/	12
University Open Days \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/open-days/	11
Clearing at UON: A Lecturer’s Experience \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/blog/clearing-at-uon-a-lecturers-experience/	11
International \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/international/	10
Research and Innovation Support \| UONwww.northampton.ac.uk/research/research-and-innovation-support/	8

Ensure links are distinguished by more than just color

University of Northampton

Where this issue has occurred