Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 669 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 669 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists 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 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page
  • URL: https://www.icij.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:59
• About HTML element 669
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Read all the investigations
  • Start tag: <a data-ga="Shortcut recent investigations home|click|More|1" class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[6]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 365, y = 3085, width = 238, height = 37

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.74 (foreground color: #666666, background color: #ffffff, font size: 12.8pt (17px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76