Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 216 on Sightline Institute page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 216 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 216
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: free use policy
  • Start tag: <a href="https://www.sightline.org/site_policies/#free-use-policy" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.sightline.org/site_policies/#free-use-policy">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/p[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1220, y = 1153, width = 115, height = 21

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.12 (foreground color: #c26233, background color: #ffffff, font size: 13.5pt (18px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 4.13 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 18px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast