Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 152 on Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/advanced
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 20:04 by job 261007T1941-ze6
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1612
  • Violators: 670
  • Issues: 65
• 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 3 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Pour + SureA11y)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input id="dc-nav-search-input-desktop" type="text" class="search-input" placeholder="Search" value="" name="q" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/header[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/div[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 488, y = 33, width = 272, height = 39
• Reported by Pour

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 152 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

1. Text inside form controls must have sufficient contrast

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: control-contrast