Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 546 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: DIV
• Text: CONNECT … Get our Weekly update
• Start tag: <div class="textwidget custom-html-widget">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[9]/div[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 532, y = 2461, width = 373, height = 216
• Reported by Alfa

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 546 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.16:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69