Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 539 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 539 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 539
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: December 22nd 2025 … By Andrew Gerard, Matthew Esche, Dan Turner-Evans, and Connor O'Brien
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__meta">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[4]
  • Bounding box: x = 1001, y = 3311, width = 598, height = 36

Diagnoses

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.73:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69

2. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.73:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69

3. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.73:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69

4. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.73:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69

5. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast

6. 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 2.73:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #040404.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)