Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 200 on Sightline Institute page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 200 of the Sightline Institute 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 Sightline Institute page
  • URL: https://www.sightline.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 04:04
• About HTML element 200
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: MARK
  • Text: research-based
  • Start tag: <mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-accent-2-color">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 439, y = 842, width = 207, height = 32

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.12 (foreground color: #c26233, background color: #ffffff, font size: 21.0pt (28px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   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