Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1919 on Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • 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 7 rule engines (Alfa + ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 816
• Violators: 636

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: AFRICA
• Start tag: <a class="link-emphasis" href="/africa" data-event-action="Regions title link" data-event-name="">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 260, y = 6849, width = 85, height = 24
• Reported by Axe + Pour + QualWeb

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1919 of the Human Rights Watch page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.93 (foreground color: #0071ce, background color: #ffffff, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76