Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 414 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 414 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 414
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__category-name">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[2]/div[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1001, y = 1614, width = 174, height = 20

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 1.9 (foreground color: #fcfbe8, background color: #42c4fc, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 1.91 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 14px and weight of 900

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

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 1.91:1. Recommendation: change background to #000406.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)