Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1122 on Water for People contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.waterforpeople.org/contact-us/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:11 by job 261007T2305-6zv
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 864
  • Violators: 314
  • Issues: 71
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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: 30
• Violators: 11

About the violator

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: SUBMIT
• Start tag: <button type="submit" id="gform_submit_button_2" class="gform_button button" onclick="gform.submission.handleButtonClick(this);" data-submission-type="submit" tabindex="22">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 450, y = 2258, width = 84, height = 31
• Reported by Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 1122 of the Water for People contact page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.1 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #fc9d0b, 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 2.11:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #fc9d0b, 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