Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 159 on Dr. Catherine Akurut curriculum vitae page

Basics

About the Dr. Catherine Akurut curriculum vitae page

• URL: https://catherineakurut-cv.netlify.app/
• Tested 44 days ago by job pk7 on 2026-06-06 at 23:11

About HTML element 159

• Tag name: A
• Text: Read article
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.polity.org.za/article/kenya-involvement-of-the-icc-in-the-2007-post-election-violence-2012-10-30" target="_blank">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/section[4]/div[10]/div[8]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1123, y = 4223, width = 69, height = 15

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 rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 159 of the Dr. Catherine Akurut curriculum vitae page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.7 (foreground color: #b8934a, background color: #faf8f4, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 2.71 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 13px and weight of 500

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast