Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 215 on Sightline Institute page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 215 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 215
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: P
  • Text: All Sightline Institute research is available to you to cite, use, and share, per our free use policy.
  • Start tag: <p class="gb-headline gb-headline-9ac15c0a gb-headline-text">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/p[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 424, y = 1153, width = 1072, height = 22

Diagnoses

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 4.13:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 4.13:1, <code>background-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>foreground-color: #c26233</code>, <code>font-size: 14pt</code> (original: <code>18px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7