Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 117 on DEPLOY/US page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://deployus.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:53 by job 261007T1941-pp1
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 137
  • Violators: 75
  • Issues: 27
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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 + Axe + Pour + WAVE)
• Violations: 13
• Violators: 8

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: WHO WE ARE
• Start tag: <div class="folder-toggle" data-href="/who-we-are">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/header[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[3]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1498, y = 20, width = 168, height = 43
• Reported by Axe + Pour

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 117 of the DEPLOY/US page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 1.09 (foreground color: #3e2725, background color: #262626, font size: 12.8pt (17px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast