Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 436 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: DIV
Text: MAY 13, 2026 … For the Cancer Calculus, an ICIJ reporter traveled to Guatemala, where her reporting on the bestselling drug Keytruda took her into crowded cancer wards and living rooms. Plus, Tunisia’s government threatens to shutter ICIJ’s media partner, and a gun shop owner in the U.S. faces terrorism-related charges for selling guns bound for cartels in Mexico.
Start tag: <div class="col-12 col-md-7 ">
XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/article[11]/div[1]/div[2]
Bounding box: x = 689, y = 4618, width = 474, height = 285
Reported by Alfa + ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 436 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

The highest possible contrast of the text is 5.74:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1
Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

Rule: r66
Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 5.74:1, <code>background-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>foreground-color: #666666</code>, <code>font-size: 9pt</code> (original: <code>12px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.
Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

Rule: color_contrast_aaa7