Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 258 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 258

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: Democracy + Elections
• Start tag: <span class="gb-button-text">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 933, y = 1207, width = 165, height = 23

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 258 of the Sightline Institute page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 4.43:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 4.43:1, <code>background-color: #517d99</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>font-size: 11pt</code> (original: <code>15px</code>), <code>font-weight: 700</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7