Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 300 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1641
  • Violators: 406
  • Issues: 53
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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: 212
• Violators: 77

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input type="submit" class="search-form__submit btn btn-search text-uppercase font-weight-bold" value="Search" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]/input[2]
• Bounding box: x = 1463, y = 175, width = 92, height = 38
• Reported by Axe

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 300 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.74 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #666666, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced