Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 684 on Freedom House page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:42 by job 261007T2129-kjk
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1243
  • Violators: 363
  • Issues: 64
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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 5 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + WAVE)
• Violations: 44
• Violators: 21

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: Freedom House and the R.T. Weatherman Foundation Announce Partnership to Advocate for the Release of Hong Kong Political Prisoner Joshua Wong
• Start tag: <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 2612, y = 4310, width = 230, height = 166
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Pour

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 684 of the Freedom House page.

1. Text contrast of 2.12 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 20px and weight of 600

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

2. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast