Kilotest: Diagnoses of link indication poor violation by HTML element 277 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 27 days ago by job 78w on 2026-05-05 at 17:27

About HTML element 277

• Tag name: A
• Text: Sign up.
• Start tag: <a href="https://cdt.org/email-signup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[7]/div[3]/div[1]/p[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1002, y = 3898, width = 349, height = 58

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About the link indication poor issue

• Why it matters: User cannot differentiate a link from plain text
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.3

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the link indication poor issue for HTML element 277 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. Links must be distinguishable without relying on color; Element's contrast ratio could not be determined due to a background image

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: link-in-text-block

2. Element is not a list item but is not underlined

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: linkUl