Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1078 on Virtual Science Teachers page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://virtualscienceteachers.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:08 by job 261007T2305-1s9
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1118
  • Violators: 496
  • Issues: 47
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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 4 rule engines (Alfa + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 21
• Violators: 11

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Licensing & Use
• Start tag: <a href="https://virtualscienceteachers.org/licensing-and-use/" class="elementor-item menu-link">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[4]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1048, y = 5033, width = 156, height = 46
• Reported by Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 1078 of the Virtual Science Teachers 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 4.38:1 (foreground: #4175fc, background: #181818, 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