Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 773 on Sightline Institute page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 773 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 773
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Read the report
  • Start tag: <a class="gb-button gb-button-96001c8e gb-button-text BlueButton" href="/fire-hazard-the-mounting-costs-of-northwest-sprawl/">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 680, y = 2870, width = 168, height = 44

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined due to a pseudo element

   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)