Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 0 on Internet Archive Democracy Now page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://archive.org/details/democracy_now_vid
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 22:01 by job 261007T2132-q4l
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 5
    • Reported any rule violations: 5
  • Violations: 63
  • Violators: 7
  • Issues: 15
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6
• Reported by 2 rule engines (Axe + QualWeb)
• Violations: 21
• Violators: 1

About the violator

• Tag name: HTML
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <html lang="en">
• XPath: /html
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 1920, height = 84
• Reported by Axe + QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 0 of the Internet Archive Democracy Now page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

2. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

3. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

4. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

5. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

6. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

7. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

8. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.58 (foreground color: #999999, background color: #222222, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

9. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

10. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

11. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

12. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

13. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

14. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

15. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

16. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

17. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.43 (foreground color: #aaaaaa, background color: #333333, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

    Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

    Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

18. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

    Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

    Rule: QW-ACT-R76

19. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

    Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

    Rule: QW-ACT-R76

20. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

    Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

    Rule: QW-ACT-R76

21. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

    Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

    Rule: QW-ACT-R76