Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 535 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 535 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 535
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: How to Accelerate the American Scientific Enterprise … By Andrew Gerard, Matthew Esche, Dan Turner-Evans, and Connor O'Brien
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__content">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 981, y = 3209, width = 638, height = 157

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