Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 694 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Basics

About the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job jcs on 2026-05-03 at 17:04

About HTML element 694

• Tag name: H5
• Text: BY NICOLE SADEK - APR 23, 2026
• Start tag: <h5 class="p-0 badge">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[6]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/h5[1]
• Bounding box: x = 365, y = 3322, width = 196, height = 12

Take me there

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 694 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.74 (foreground color: #666666, background color: #ffffff, font size: 9.0pt (12px), 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 5.74:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #595959.

   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