Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 334 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 34 days ago by job ocb on 2026-04-28 at 16:47

About HTML element 334

• Tag name: A
• Text: SoundCloud
• Start tag: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/cdt-tech-talk" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="saAutomatedLink(this, 'outbound');">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[10]/div[1]/p[1]/em[1]/a[2]
• Bounding box: x = 439, y = 6158, width = 123, height = 26

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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 334 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.28 (foreground color: #52b6e6, background color: #ffffff, font size: 16.5pt (22px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 2.28 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 22px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast