Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1127 on Institute for Progress page

Basics

About the Institute for Progress page

• URL: https://ifp.org/
• Tested 28 days ago by job 00v on 2026-05-04 at 17:00

About HTML element 1127

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: By Saif Khan, Tao Burga, Tim Fist, and Georgia Adamson
• Start tag: <div class="author-list">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[11]/div[2]/div[4]/div[1]/div[2]
• Bounding box: x = 4831, y = 4592, width = 297, height = 13

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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 1127 of the Institute for Progress page.

1. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 2.81:1, <code>background-color: #fffef2</code>, <code>foreground-color: #999999</code>, <code>font-size: 9pt</code> (original: <code>12px</code>), <code>font-weight: 300</code>. <small>Note:</small> The element is possibly visually hidden and that state might be temporary. For example the lazy loading technique can be used and the element will be visible at some point.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa4

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 2.81:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #060606.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G17.Fail