Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 323 on Centre for Effective Altruism page

Basics

About the Centre for Effective Altruism page

• URL: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
• Tested 38 days ago by job 6gw on 2026-04-24 at 21:54

About HTML element 323

• Tag name: DIV
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• Start tag: <div class="css-3hh0cd-Type-root-Type-body-HomePage-newsletterFooter" dir="auto" data-style="body">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/section[4]/div[1]/div[5]
• Bounding box: x = 675, y = 1727, width = 570, height = 24

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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 323 of the Centre for Effective Altruism page.

1. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 3.11:1, <code>background-color: #c9d7d8</code>, <code>foreground-color: #757575</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 500</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7

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 3.11:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #404040.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76