Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1143 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1143 of the Institute for Progress 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 Institute for Progress page
  • URL: https://ifp.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 04:21
• About HTML element 1143
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: Lab-Directed R&D at the National Labs … By Dan Turner-Evans and Charles Yang
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__content">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[12]/div[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 5214, y = 4383, width = 425, height = 206

Diagnoses

1. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 2.73:1, <code>background-color: #fcfbe8</code>, <code>foreground-color: #999999</code>, <code>font-size: 9pt</code> (original: <code>12px</code>), <code>font-weight: 300</code>. <small>Note:</small> The element is possibly visually hidden and that state might be temporary. For example the lazy loading technique can be used and the element will be visible at some point.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa4