Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 234 on Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://segm.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 22:28 by job 261007T2202-905
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 3251
  • Violators: 625
  • Issues: 57
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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 7 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 701
• Violators: 231

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Register now
• Start tag: <a href="https://events.humanitix.com/youth-gender-distress/tickets?utm_source=Website_homepage&amp;utm_medium=Button&amp;utm_campaign=Register_homepage_website" class="conference-promo__button conference-promo__button--primary conference-promo--angled__button conference-promo--angled__button--primary ext" target="_blank" data-extlink="" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/section[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 8, y = 1420, width = 165, height = 52
• Reported by Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 234 of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.63 (foreground color: #f9f9f9, background color: #f97253, font size: 15.0pt (20px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.64:1. Recommendation: change background to #cb4425.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

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 2.64:1 (foreground: #f9f9f9, background: #f97253, font size: 20px, 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