Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 300 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: Hesperian Health Guides develops and distributes easily understood health materials that empower people to take greater control over their health and organize to eliminate the social causes of poor health.
• Start tag: <span style="color: #ed7e32;">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/h3[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 197, y = 736, width = 1526, height = 64
• Reported by Alfa + ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 300 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.64:1 which is below the required contrast of 4.5:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for large font size at least 4.5:1, but got ratio: 2.64:1,<code>background-color: #fafafa</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ed7e32</code>, <code>font-size: 21pt</code> (original: <code>28px</code>), <code>font-weight: 700</code>.%6

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7