Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 121 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:37 by job 261007T2129-2eu
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 947
  • Violators: 295
  • Issues: 57
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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 7 rule engines (Alfa + ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 72
• Violators: 39

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: ABOUT
• Start tag: <span class="avia-menu-text">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[3]/a[1]/span[2]
• Bounding box: x = 1529, y = 14, width = 53, height = 18
• Reported by Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 121 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

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

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76

3. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 1.04:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #fafafa, font size: 15px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced