Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 134 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 34 days ago by job ocb on 2026-04-28 at 16:47

About HTML element 134

• Tag name: A
• Text: Donate
• Start tag: <a href="/donate/">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/nav[1]/section[1]/ul[1]/li[5]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1782, y = 2, width = 87, height = 57

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 134 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

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 2.28:1. Recommendation: change background to #005e8c.

   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