Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 78 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
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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: LI
• Text: Electricity consumption by state
• Start tag: <li>
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[1]
• Bounding box: x = 326, y = 610, width = 240, height = 28
• Reported by Alfa + ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 78 of the Institute for Progress US Energy Data Electricity Demand page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 6.96:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Element was excluded from scanning because it's not visible either due to being explicitly hidden or e.g. is being rendered outside of viewport, having transparency etc.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7