Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 543 on Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://segm.org/
• Tested 2 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: Letters to WHO from the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), which has itself commissioned several forthcoming relevant systematic reviews, and the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG), a network of mainly UK and Irish clinicians, raised the question of whether WHO would be evaluating the benefits and harms of hormonal treatments for gender incongruence—or if instead it “has taken a policy position on this without critically appraising the evidence,” as a letter from...
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2227" class="ext" data-extlink="" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 2487, y = 3468, width = 456, height = 160
• Reported by Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 543 of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page.

1. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. 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

3. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast