Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 469 on New_Public page

Basics

About the New_Public page

• URL: https://newpublic.org/
• Tested 20 days ago by job 40e on 2026-05-13 at 05:28

About HTML element 469

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: In the news
• Start tag: <div class="SplitText__child h2" style="display: block; text-align: start; position: relative; translate: none; rotate: none; scale: none; transform: translate(0px, 100%);">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/h3[1]/div[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 587, y = 5532, width = 1333, height = 107

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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 469 of the New_Public page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined due to a pseudo 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 1.51:1. Recommendation: change background to #9e6a48.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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