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- What is the minimum contrast ratio between link text and non link text?
- What is the best color for a hyperlink?
- Do links need to be underlined for accessibility?
- What color blue should links be?
What is the minimum contrast ratio between link text and non link text?
Ensure all links that appear in blocks of text have a color contrast difference of at least 3:1 with the surrounding text to ensure that users who cannot distinguish between the colors can still find the link.
What is the best color for a hyperlink?
Shades of blue provide the strongest signal for links, but other colors work almost as well. As always, when using color to signal information, you should provide redundant cues for color-blind users. Making unvisited links brighter and more luminous than visited links will usually accomplish this goal.
Do links need to be underlined for accessibility?
Best practice is to underline all links in content. However, if your links are not underlined, web accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0) require link text be discernable from body text by at least a 3:1 contrast ratio.
What color blue should links be?
standard link: #0000EE (blue) visited link: #551A8B (purple) active link: #EE0000 (red)
