Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 491 on Tradeoffs page

Basics

About the Tradeoffs page

• URL: https://tradeoffs.org/
• Tested 30 days ago by job 5g2 on 2026-06-20 at 13:59

About HTML element 491

• Tag name: P
• Text: Tradeoffs helps you cut through the noise with clear, deeply reported journalism on the forces driving the health care’s toughest choices — reporting you won’t find anywhere else.
• Start tag: <p class="has-text-align-left has-tradeoffs-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-907790c66204d0c47d318e29b41cb888 wp-block-paragraph">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[6]/p[1]
• Bounding box: x = 408, y = 3703, width = 1105, height = 58

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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 rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 491 of the Tradeoffs 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 4.16:1. Recommendation: change background to #525252.

   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