Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 353 on Institute for Progress page

Basics

About the Institute for Progress page

• URL: https://ifp.org/
• Tested 28 days ago by job 00v on 2026-05-04 at 17:00

About HTML element 353

• Tag name: H2
• Text: Spotlight research
• Start tag: <h2 class="home-spotlight-posts__title">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/h2[1]
• Bounding box: x = 984, y = 1080, width = 636, height = 204

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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 Institute for Progress page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because it's partially obscured by another element

   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 2.1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #0a0300.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. Text contrast of 2.10 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 30px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast