Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 560 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1641
  • Violators: 406
  • Issues: 53
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

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 + Pour + SureA11y)
• Violations: 75
• Violators: 30

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: 308
• Start tag: <span class="badge badge-secondary">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[6]/a[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1371, y = 689, width = 32, height = 18
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 560 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.84 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #999999, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 2.85 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 12px and weight of 400

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast

4. Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.85:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #999999, font size: 12px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-minimum