Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 590 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 590 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists 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 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page
  • URL: https://www.icij.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:59
• About HTML element 590
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Recent investigations
  • Start tag: <a data-ga="Shortcut home top projects|click|All investigations|1" class="bg-light nav-link active" href="/investigations">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 365, y = 2656, width = 185, height = 36

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.29 (foreground color: #ff0000, background color: #e9e9e9, font size: 12.8pt (17px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 3.29 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 17px and weight of 600

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient