Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 547 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 547

• Tag name: A
• Text: Connor O'Brien
• Start tag: <a href="https://ifp.org/author/connor-obrien/" class="author-list__author">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 1451, y = 3372, width = 81, height = 19

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 547 of the Institute for Progress page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.81:1 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: 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>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa4