Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 276 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 276

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: ENGLISH
• Start tag: <span class="avia_iconbox_title">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/a[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 862, y = 658, width = 79, height = 20

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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 276 of the Hesperian Health Guides 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 3.65:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #292929.

   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