Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 781 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 781

• Tag name: P
• Text: Join us! Sightline’s community of donors and partners fuels our research—and makes forward-thinking policy progress a reality.
• Start tag: <p class="gb-headline gb-headline-e457820f gb-headline-text">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/p[2]
• Bounding box: x = 1320, y = 2825, width = 560, height = 45

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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 781 of the Sightline Institute page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined due to a pseudo element

   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 4.43:1. Recommendation: change background to #315d79.

   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