Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 176 on Sightline Institute page

Basics

About the Sightline Institute page

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

About HTML element 176

• Tag name: A
• Text: Donate
• Start tag: <a class="gb-button gb-button-20e05a1f gb-button-text OrangeButton" href="https://www.sightline.org/donate/">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[1]/div[2]/a[2]
• Bounding box: x = 1296, y = 23, width = 102, height = 44

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 176 of the Sightline Institute 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 4.13:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #9a3a0b.

   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