Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 301 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:37 by job 261007T2129-2eu
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 947
  • Violators: 295
  • Issues: 57
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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 7 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 38
• Violators: 10

About the violator

• Tag name: STRONG
• Text: Hesperian Health Guides develops and distributes easily understood health materials that empower people to take greater control over their health and organize to eliminate the social causes of poor health.
• Start tag: <strong>
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 197, y = 736, width = 1526, height = 64
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 301 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.63 (foreground color: #ed7e32, background color: #fafafa, font size: 21.0pt (28px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. 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 2.64:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #c05105.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. Text contrast of 2.64 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 28px and weight of 700

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast

5. Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.64:1 (foreground: #ed7e32, background: #fafafa, font size: 28px, font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1 (large text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-minimum

6. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast