Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 636 on Freedom House page

Basics

About the Freedom House page

• URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
• Tested 38 days ago by job xrd on 2026-04-24 at 20:02

About HTML element 636

• Tag name: A
• Text: Subscribe
• Start tag: <a class="button large-button blue subscribe-block-button" href="/manage-subscriptions">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1152, y = 4015, width = 130, height = 50

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About the text contrast improvable issue

• Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 636 of the Freedom House page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 6.69 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #385e8a, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

2. 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 6.7:1. Recommendation: change background to #355b87.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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