Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 353 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 353

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: Join Us
• Start tag: <span class="outlined-text">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[11]/div[2]/div[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 612, y = 6720, width = 324, height = 111

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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 353 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has a 1:1 contrast ratio with the background

   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