Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 64 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
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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: A
• Text: Skip to Main Content
• Start tag: <a href="#main">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/ul[1]/li[2]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 876, y = -200, width = 168, height = 43
• Reported by SureA11y

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 64 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 4.95:1 (foreground: #3d71b7, background: #ffffff, font size: 14px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced