Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1122 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:43 by job 261007T1941-nud
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1226
  • Violators: 632
  • Issues: 48
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6
• Reported by 4 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb)
• Violations: 141
• Violators: 138

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Talking Tech with Roy Austin & Alex Givens on The Future of AI Governance
• Start tag: <a href="https://cdt.org/insights/talking-tech-with-roy-austin-alex-givens-on-the-future-of-ai-governance/" class="anchor__link">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/section[5]/div[1]/div[1]/article[1]/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/span[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 240, y = 5545, width = 453, height = 46
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1122 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. Element was excluded from scanning because it's not visible either due to being explicitly hidden or e.g. is being rendered outside of viewport, having transparency etc.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7