Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 495 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: Inside the conference, we heard about the ways in which adolescent development can get stuck in perpetuity — descriptions which, let’s be honest, now apply to much of society at large. There’s black-and-white thinking, and a lack of tolerance for ambiguity. There’s a splitting of the world into good or bad objects, along with an inability to think through the consequences of present actions or to care about the future. There’s a fear of sexual development and reproduction; and...
• Start tag: <a href="https://unherd.com/2025/09/toddler-logic-is-poisoning-politics/" class="ext" data-extlink="" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 780, y = 3438, width = 440, height = 144
• Reported by Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 495 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 4.22 (foreground color: #0d8894, 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 must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast

3. Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.23:1 (foreground: #0d8894, 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

4. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast