Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 482 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:40 by job 261007T2129-eze
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 377
  • Violators: 189
  • Issues: 43
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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: 39
• Violators: 20

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Our Work … DONATE
• Start tag: <div class="grid">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 975, y = 6774, width = 685, height = 289
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 482 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

1. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 5.21:1, <code>background-color: #da0a08</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>font-size: 15pt</code> (original: <code>20px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7