Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 540 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 540 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 540
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: December 22nd 2025
  • Start tag: <div class="post-listing__date">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[4]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1001, y = 3331, width = 116, height = 16

Diagnoses

1. 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

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76

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: WallyAX (Wally)