Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 940 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 940 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 940
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: February 11th 2026
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__date">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[7]/div[2]/div[4]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 3001, y = 4553, width = 100, height = 16

Diagnoses

1. Text contrast of 2.73 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 12px and weight of 300

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

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

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)