Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 289 on LibreOffice page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 289 of the LibreOffice 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 LibreOffice page
  • URL: https://www.libreoffice.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-05 at 23:04
• About HTML element 289
  • Tag name: P
  • Text: Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but
  • Start tag: <p>
  • XPath: /html/body/section[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/p[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 400, y = 1648, width = 243, height = 216

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.22 (foreground color: #626c72, background color: #dfe5e8, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 4.23 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 13px and weight of 400

   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 4.23:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #5d676d.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)