Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 979 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 979 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 979
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: By Aidan Mackenzie
  • Start tag: <div class="author-list">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[8]/div[2]/div[4]/div[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 3565, y = 4553, width = 107, height = 16

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