Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 561 on National Coalition Against Censorship contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://ncac.org/contact
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:57 by job 261007T2138-czm
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 426
  • Violators: 171
  • Issues: 41
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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 6 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 38
• Violators: 13

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: ncac[at]ncac.org
• Start tag: <a href="mailto:ncac@ncac.org">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/p[6]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 538, y = 660, width = 106, height = 18
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

Take me there

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 561 of the National Coalition Against Censorship contact page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.91 (foreground color: #ee3e2c, background color: #ffffff, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 3.92 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

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 3.92:1 (foreground: #ee3e2c, background: #ffffff, font size: 16px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-minimum

5. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast