Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 334 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 27 days ago by job 78w on 2026-05-05 at 17:27

About HTML element 334

• Tag name: A
• Text: SoundCloud
• Start tag: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/cdt-tech-talk" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="saAutomatedLink(this, 'outbound');">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[10]/div[1]/p[1]/em[1]/a[2]
• Bounding box: x = 439, y = 6127, width = 123, height = 26

Take me there

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 334 of the Center for Democracy and Technology 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 2.28:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #005e8c.

   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