Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 572 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: SPAN
• Text: 232
• Start tag: <span class="badge badge-secondary">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[8]/a[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1420, y = 769, width = 32, height = 18
• Reported by HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 572 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. 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 2.85:1. Recommendation: change background to #595959.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G17.Fail

2. Text must have enhanced contrast against its background (AAA)

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

3. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 2.85:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #999999, font size: 12px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced