Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 209 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 209 of the Institute for Progress 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 Institute for Progress page
  • URL: https://ifp.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 04:21
• About HTML element 209
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: P
  • Text: The US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it
  • Start tag: <p>
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/h2[1]/p[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 300, y = 1155, width = 400, height = 90

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. 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 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #060600.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast

4. 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 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #060600.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)