Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 721 on Quiet Communities page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.quietcommunities.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 22:17 by job 261007T2152-n0c
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 806
  • Violators: 388
  • Issues: 56
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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 5 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 192
• Violators: 151

About the violator

• Tag name: P
• Text: Quiet Communities, Inc. announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency unreasonably abdicated its responsibilities under the federal Noise Control Act of 1972, by failing to comply with mandatory obligations under the law for more than 40 years.
• Start tag: <p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space: pre-wrap; transition-timing-function: ease; transition-duration: 0.9s; transition-delay: 0.157143s;" class="preFade">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 147, y = 2844, width = 422, height = 144
• Reported by HTML CodeSniffer + SureA11y

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 721 of the Quiet Communities 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 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #595959.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

2. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 1.00:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #ffffff, font size: 16px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced