Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 288 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 288

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: Hesperian Health Guides develops and distributes easily understood health materials that empower people to take greater control over their health and organize to eliminate the social causes of poor health.
• Start tag: <span style="color: #ed7e32;">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/h3[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 197, y = 736, width = 1526, height = 64

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 288 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.64:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for large font size at least 4.5:1, but got ratio: 2.64:1,<code>background-color: #fafafa</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ed7e32</code>, <code>font-size: 21pt</code> (original: <code>28px</code>), <code>font-weight: 700</code>.%6

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7