Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 664 on EarthShare page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 664 of the EarthShare page.

Basics

• About the contrast poor issue
  • Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
  • Priority: highest
  • Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• About the EarthShare page
  • URL: https://www.earthshare.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:23
• About HTML element 664
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: READ MORE
  • Start tag: <a class="elementor-post__read-more" href="https://www.earthshare.org/quiz-february-2026-medicinal-plants/" aria-label="Read more about Quiz | February 2026 | Medicinal Plants">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 1220, y = 2872, width = 73, height = 14

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.16 (foreground color: #888888, background color: #f2f2f2, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 3.17 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 12px and weight of 700

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast