Kilotest: Diagnoses of all-italic text violation by HTML element 53 on WebAIM page

Here is how tools diagnose the all-italic text issue for HTML element 53 of the WebAIM page.

Basics

• About the all-italic text issue
  • Why it matters: Text is difficult to read
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 3.1.5
• About the WebAIM page
  • URL: https://webaim.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:55
• About HTML element 53
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: ARTICLE
  • Text: We have web accessibility in mind … open for enrollment
  • Start tag: <article id="maincontent">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/article[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 490, y = 363, width = 920, height = 979

Diagnoses

1. The text of the paragraph is all italic

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r85

2. You have defined <code>font-style: italic;</code> on long ( 137 chars) text content. This makes the content difficult to read.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: font_style_italic