Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1917 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:57 by job 261007T1941-pfb
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 2429
  • Violators: 1331
  • Issues: 75
• 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 5 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 293
• Violators: 181

About the violator

• Tag name: LABEL
• Text: Do not fill this out if you are a person
• Start tag: <label for="mc-honeypot-footer">
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form[1]/div[2]/label[1]
• Bounding box: x = -3767, y = 8421, width = 275, height = 19
• Reported by SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1917 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 1.08:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #f7f6f2, font size: 16px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced