Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1052 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: SPAN
• Text: SEARCH
• Start tag: <span class="DonorLookupSplash-form-submit-inner">
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[4]/button[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 850, y = 1513, width = 221, height = 21
• Reported by Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1052 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.34 between the foreground and shadow color (foreground color: #ffffff, text-shadow color: #c6342c, font size: 12.8pt (17px), font weight: bold). 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 4.65:1. Recommendation: change background to #b2140b.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76