Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 229 on DemocracyNext page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 229 of the DemocracyNext 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 DemocracyNext page
  • URL: https://www.demnext.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-10 at 16:47
• About HTML element 229
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  • Tag name: SPAN
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  • Start tag: <span class="block text-center sm:text-right pt-2.5 mb-[15px] font-propos text-body-12 last:mb-0 sm:mb-5 text-black/50">
  • XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/span[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1219, y = 7855, width = 469, height = 26

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.94 (foreground color: #808080, background color: #ffffff, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 3.98 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 12px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient