Foreground and background color do not contrast sufficiently

This file demonstrates poor contrast between the foreground (link) and background.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Foreground and background color do not contrast sufficiently</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#ff88ff" alink="#000000" vlink="#000000">
</body>
</html>