Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 526 on GiveDirectly page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 526 of the GiveDirectly 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 GiveDirectly page
  • URL: https://www.givedirectly.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:25
• About HTML element 526
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: P
  • Text: “Giving $1,000 to poor families lowered infant mortality rates by nearly half, and deaths in children under 5 by 45 percent… The decline in infant mortality is a ‘show-stopping result.’”
  • Start tag: <p class="tptn__card-nyt-quote">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]/div[3]/p[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1479, y = 2034, width = 298, height = 120

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. Text contrast of 1.07 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 16px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast