Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1262 on Open Secrets page

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 1262 of the Open Secrets page.

  1. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.12:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #767676.

    Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

    Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

  2. Text contrast of 2.12 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 24px and weight of 500

    Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

    Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

  3. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

    Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

    Rule: color-contrast

  4. Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.12:1 (foreground: #b2b2b2, background: #ffffff, font size: 24px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1 (large text).

    Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

    Rule: contrast-minimum