Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 135 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 135 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation 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 Freedom of the Press Foundation page
  • URL: https://freedom.press/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
• About HTML element 135
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: TAKE ACTION
  • Start tag: <a href="/action/" class="nav-item-control btn btn-tertiary">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[3]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1376, y = 0, width = 199, height = 103

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.21 (foreground color: #da0a08, background color: #ffffff, font size: 15.0pt (20px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

2. 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 5.21:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #b60200.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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