Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor
violation by HTML element 1263 on Open Secrets page
Basics
About the page
- URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
- Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:57 by job
261007T1941-pfb - Summary of results:
- Rule engines:
- Called: 12
- Were able to test: 12
- Reported any rule violations: 12
- Violations: 2429
- Violators: 1331
- Issues: 75
- Rule engines:
- 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 4 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y)
- Violations: 20
- Violators: 8
About the violator
- Tag name:
LI - Text:
Research support
- Start tag:
<li class="dc-text-title-s" data-attribute="feature-3"> - XPath:
/html/body /div[4] /div[5] /div[1] /div[1] /ul[1] /li[3] - Bounding box: x = 310, y = 4010, width = 748, height = 89
- Reported by Accessibility Checker + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y
Diagnoses
Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor
issue for HTML element 1263 of the Open Secrets page.
- 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 - 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 - Text must have sufficient contrast against its background
Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)
Rule:
color-contrast - 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