Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 458 on Founders Pledge page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.founderspledge.com/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:27 by job 261007T2113-g5v
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 485
  • Violators: 144
  • Issues: 54
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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 (Alfa + ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 45
• Violators: 16

About the violator

• Tag name: P
• Text: We use essential cookies that are necessary for our Website to function properly, as well as analytics cookies that help us understand how you interact with our Website. You can choose to accept or reject the non-essential analytics cookies. For more details relative to cookies and other sensitive data, please read the full privacy notice.
• Start tag: <p id="cm__desc" class="cm__desc">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/p[1]
• Bounding box: x = 528, y = 940, width = 567, height = 122
• Reported by ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 458 of the Founders Pledge page.

1. Element was excluded from scanning because it's not visible either due to being explicitly hidden or e.g. is being rendered outside of viewport, having transparency etc.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7

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 6.15:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #55595d.

   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 6.15:1 (foreground: #5e6266, background: #ffffff, font size: 14.4px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced