Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 251 on Freedom House page

Basics

About the Freedom House page

• URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
• Tested 38 days ago by job xrd on 2026-04-24 at 20:02

About HTML element 251

• Tag name: H1
• Text: Expanding and Defending Freedom Around the World
• Start tag: <h1 class="basic-h1">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/h1[1]
• Bounding box: x = 420, y = 298, width = 710, height = 186

About the contrast poor issue

• Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 251 of the Freedom House page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because element contains an image node

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-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 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #767676.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast