Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 258 on America Walks page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 258 of the America Walks page.

Basics

• About the text contrast improvable issue
  • Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6
• About the America Walks page
  • URL: https://americawalks.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:21
• About HTML element 258
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: MORE ABOUT OUR PARTNERS
  • Start tag: <a class="button" href="https://americawalks.org/partners-sponsors/" target="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/section[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1064, y = 3347, width = 327, height = 45

Diagnoses

1. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 7:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 4.68:1. Recommendation: change background to #a13300.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G17.Fail

2. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76

3. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 7:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 4.68:1. Recommendation: change background to #a13300.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)