Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 172 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the Open Secrets page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 13 days ago by job 79l on 2026-05-19 at 14:37

About HTML element 172

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: About
• Start tag: <div class="nav-link dc-text-nav-label" data-nav-item="5_about">
• XPath: /html/body/div[3]/header[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[5]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1330, y = 108, width = 40, height = 72

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 172 of the Open Secrets 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 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #595959.

   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