Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 573 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 573

• Tag name: A
• Text: Subscribe to Newsletter
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.statecraft.pub/" class="">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 773, y = 4012, width = 127, height = 13

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 573 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. Text contrast of 2.10 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 11px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast