Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 363 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 363 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 363
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: Spotlight research
  • Start tag: <div class="home-spotlight-posts__title">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 980, y = 1080, width = 640, height = 185

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because it's partially obscured by another 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 2.04:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #060200.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. Text contrast of 2.04 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 30px and weight of 300

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast