Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1039 on Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/advanced
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 20:04 by job 261007T1941-ze6
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1612
  • Violators: 670
  • Issues: 65
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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: 466
• Violators: 149

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: All recipient types
• Start tag: <div class="placeholder" aria-hidden="true">
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 625, y = 1397, width = 670, height = 60
• Reported by QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1039 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76