Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 735 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 735

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: money in politics
• Start tag: <span>
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/h1[1]/span[2]
• Bounding box: x = 310, y = 332, width = 1300, height = 80

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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 735 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because element contains an image node

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

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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