Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1293 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the Open Secrets page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 13 days ago by job 79l on 2026-05-19 at 14:37

About HTML element 1293

• Tag name: LI
• Text: Research support
• Start tag: <li class="dc-text-title-s" data-attribute="feature-3">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[3]
• Bounding box: x = 310, y = 4010, width = 748, height = 89

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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 1293 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.12 (foreground color: #b2b2b2, background color: #ffffff, font size: 18.0pt (24px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1

   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 2.12:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #767676.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. Text contrast of 2.12 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 24px and weight of 500

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient