Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 461 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 461

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: By Jeremy Neufeld and Violet Buxton-Walsh
• Start tag: <div class="author-list">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[4]/div[1]/div[2]
• Bounding box: x = 1125, y = 2308, width = 233, height = 13

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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 461 of the Institute for Progress page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.81:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69

2. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because it is overlapped by another element

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

3. Text contrast of 2.81 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 12px and weight of 300

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast