Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 658 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
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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 + Pour + SureA11y)
Violations: 75
Violators: 30

About the violator

Tag name: A
Text: Donate
Start tag: <a class="btn btn-donate" href="/donate/">
XPath: [not obtained]
Bounding box: x = 1344, y = 1144, width = 79, height = 36
Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 658 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.99 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #ff0000, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1
Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

Rule: color-contrast
Text contrast of 4.00 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 16px and weight of 400
Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

Rule: text_contrast_sufficient
Text must have sufficient contrast against its background
Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

Rule: color-contrast
Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.00:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #ff0000, font size: 16px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (normal text).
Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

Rule: contrast-minimum