Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 128 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the Hesperian Health Guides page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 4 days ago by job glp on 2026-05-28 at 22:54

About HTML element 128

• Tag name: A
• Text: DONATE
• Start tag: <a href="https://hesperian.org/donate/" itemprop="url" tabindex="0">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[6]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1732, y = 1, width = 116, height = 45

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 128 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 4.68:1 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: 4.68:1, <code>background-color: #0179bf</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>font-size: 11pt</code> (original: <code>15px</code>), <code>font-weight: 600</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7