Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1457 on Human Rights Watch contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/contact-us
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-ov7
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1653
  • Violators: 652
  • Issues: 54
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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: 924
• Violators: 452

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Footer menu … © 2026 Human Rights Watch
• Start tag: <div class="flex flex-col justify-between border-b border-gray-600 lg:flex-row">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 360, y = 10072, width = 1016, height = 49
• Reported by Alfa + ASLint

Take me there

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1457 of the Human Rights Watch contact page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 6.08:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 6.08:1, <code>background-color: #202020</code>, <code>foreground-color: #9e9e9e</code>, <code>font-size: 11pt</code> (original: <code>14px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa4