Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 169 on DEPLOY/US page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://deployus.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:53 by job 261007T1941-pp1
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 137
  • Violators: 75
  • Issues: 27
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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 6 rule engines (ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 35
• Violators: 27

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: LATEST UPDATES
• Start tag: <a href="/latest-updates" class="sqs-block-button-element--medium sqs-button-element--primary sqs-block-button-element" data-sqsp-button="">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 848, y = 1187, width = 224, height = 63
• Reported by Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 169 of the DEPLOY/US page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 6.33 (foreground color: #b32d23, background color: #ffffff, font size: 11.3pt (15px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

2. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 7:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 6.33:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #aa241a.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G17.Fail

3. Text must have enhanced contrast against its background (AAA)

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

4. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76

5. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 6.33:1 (foreground: #b32d23, background: #ffffff, font size: 15px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced