Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 977 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 977 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 977
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: February 3rd 2026 … By Aidan Mackenzie
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__meta">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[8]/div[2]/div[4]
  • Bounding box: x = 3447, y = 4533, width = 385, height = 36

Diagnoses

1. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

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

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)