Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 542 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 542 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 542
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: SPAN
  • Text: ©
  • Start tag: <span class="copyright">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[3]/p[1]/span[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 260, y = 7224, width = 7, height = 14

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 2.27:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #94959c.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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