Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 130 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 130

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: DONATE
• Start tag: <span class="avia-menu-text">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[6]/a[1]/span[2]
• Bounding box: x = 1745, y = 0, width = 90, height = 46

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 130 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.67 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #0179bf, font size: 11.3pt (15px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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 4.68:1. Recommendation: change background to #005d94.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76