Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 231 on DemocracyNext page

Basics

About the DemocracyNext page

• URL: https://www.demnext.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job arb on 2026-05-03 at 17:03

About HTML element 231

• 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 = 7764, width = 469, 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 231 of the DemocracyNext page.

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

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast