Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 284 on Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.thefire.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:34 by job 261007T2113-rl6
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 10
  • Violations: 618
  • Violators: 318
  • Issues: 49
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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 (HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 22
• Violators: 20

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input class="js-header-search-input" type="search" name="q" aria-label="Search Term(s)" placeholder="Enter search terms" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1892, y = 78, width = 30, height = 50
• Reported by Pour

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 284 of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) page.

1. Text inside form controls must have sufficient contrast

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: control-contrast