Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 1152 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: A
• Text: Technology Adoption Policy … (opens in new tab)
• Start tag: <a id="menurdob" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" title="https://www.waterforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/technology-adoption-policy-2025.pdf" href="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/waterforpeople.org/2025/11/Technology-Adoption-Policy-2025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Link Technology Adoption Policy">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 450, y = 2421, width = 985, height = 41
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 1152 of the Water for People contact page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.45 (foreground color: #3095b4, 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 contrast of 3.45 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 16px and weight of 300

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

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 3.45:1 (foreground: #3095b4, 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

5. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast