Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 475 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:43 by job 261007T1941-nud
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1226
  • Violators: 632
  • Issues: 48
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• Reported by 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + HTML CodeSniffer)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 3

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization shaping technology policy, governance, and design with a focus on equity and democratic values.
• Start tag: <span style="font-weight: 400;">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[3]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/p[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 240, y = 351, width = 538, height = 63
• Reported by Accessibility Checker

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 475 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. Text contrast of 4.35 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 16px and weight of 400

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient