Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 580 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: A
• Text: Investigative reporting 201
• Start tag: <a data-ga="Popular topics|click|Investigative reporting|1" class="tag-count__link" href="https://www.icij.org/tags/investigative-reporting/">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[10]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1226, y = 847, width = 216, height = 18
• Reported by Alfa

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 580 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.85:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r69