Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1080 on Webby Awards page

Basics

About the Webby Awards page

• URL: https://www.webbyawards.com/
• Tested 13 days ago by job z57 on 2026-05-19 at 14:40

About HTML element 1080

• Tag name: H5
• Text: Pete Davidson, … Webby Special Achievement
• Start tag: <h5>
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[9]/a[1]/div[2]/h5[1]
• Bounding box: x = 2078, y = 4498, width = 339, height = 34

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 1080 of the Webby Awards page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 3.98:1 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 has insufficient color contrast of 3.94 (foreground color: #808080, background color: #ffffff, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

3. Text contrast of 3.98 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 14px and weight of 700

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient