Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 678 on Freedom House page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 678 of the Freedom House 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 House page
  • URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
• About HTML element 678
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: H3
  • Text: PRESS & MEDIA
  • Start tag: <h3 class="footer-header">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[2]/h3[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1345, y = 4495, width = 155, height = 13

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.59 (foreground color: #697077, background color: #f3f5f8, font size: 9.0pt (12px), 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 NaN:1.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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