Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1338 on Human Rights Watch contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/contact-us
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-ov7
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1653
  • Violators: 652
  • Issues: 54
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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 + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + WAVE)
• Violations: 8
• Violators: 6

About the violator

• Tag name: H4
• Text: If you have a question regarding your donation, please contact us at +1 212 377 9479
• Start tag: <h4>
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 1314, y = 391, width = 278, height = 195
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + WAVE

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 1338 of the Human Rights Watch contact page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 1.25 (foreground color: #e5e5e5, background color: #ffffff, font size: 19.5pt (26px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 1.26 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 26px and weight of 500

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast