Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 251 on Freedom House page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 251 of the Freedom House 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 Freedom House page
  • URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
• About HTML element 251
  • Tag name: H1
  • Text: Expanding and Defending Freedom Around the World
  • Start tag: <h1 class="basic-h1">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/h1[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 420, y = 298, width = 710, height = 186

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because element contains an image node

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #767676.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast