Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 2717 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: H2
• Text: Footer menu
• Start tag: <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-hrw-design-footer-menu">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/h2[1]
• Bounding box: x = 360, y = 9185, width = 1, height = 1
• Reported by SureA11y

Take me there

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 2717 of the Human Rights Watch page.

1. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 6.08:1 (foreground: #9e9e9e, background: #202020, font size: 16px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced