Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 503 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 503 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 503
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: By Ruxandra Teslo and Matthew Esche
  • Start tag: <div class="author-list">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div[4]/div[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1115, y = 2794, width = 205, height = 16

Diagnoses

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.73:1 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: 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>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa4

3. 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 2.73:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #040404.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76

5. 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 2.73:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #040404.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)