Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 188 on Sightline Institute page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 188 of the Sightline Institute 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 Sightline Institute page
  • URL: https://www.sightline.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 04:04
• About HTML element 188
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Learn More
  • Start tag: <a class="gb-button gb-button-8c6de79e gb-button-text BlueButton" href="https://www.sightline.org/about/">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 380, y = 526, width = 134, height = 44

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.42 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #517d99, font size: 12.8pt (17px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast

3. 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 4.43:1. Recommendation: change background to #4f7b97.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)