Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable
violation by HTML element 74 on Institute for Progress US Energy Data Electricity Demand page
Basics
About the page
- URL: https://usenergydata.org/electricity-demand/
- Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:52 by job
261007T2132-e35 - Summary of results:
- Rule engines:
- Called: 12
- Were able to test: 11
- Reported any rule violations: 10
- Violations: 1524
- Violators: 204
- Issues: 40
- Rule engines:
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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: 259
- Violators: 104
About the violator
- Tag name:
SPAN - Text:
CONTENTS
- Start tag:
<span class="toc-title"> - XPath:
/html/body /div[2] /nav[1] /div[1] /span[1] - Bounding box: x = 326, y = 564, width = 69, height = 18
- Reported by HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y
Diagnoses
Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable
issue for HTML element 74 of the Institute for Progress US Energy Data Electricity Demand page.
- This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 7:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.32:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #595959.
Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)
Rule:
E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G17.Fail - Text must have enhanced contrast against its background (AAA)
Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)
Rule:
color-contrast-enhanced - [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)
Rule:
QW-ACT-R76 - Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 2.32:1 (foreground: #aaaaaa, background: #ffffff, font size: 11px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).
Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)
Rule:
contrast-enhanced