Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 559 on Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://segm.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 22:28 by job 261007T2202-905
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 3251
  • Violators: 625
  • Issues: 57
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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: 851
• Violators: 333

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: The review by Hilary Cass, paediatrician and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was commissioned by the NHS and built on the findings of Cass’s 2022 interim report. Then, she found that the evidence underpinning the treatment intensive, “gender affirming” model of care for distressed young people was “limited” and “inconclusive.” The final report is even clearer: “The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long term outcomes of interventions to manage...
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1141" class="ext" data-extlink="" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 3056, y = 3453, width = 455, height = 144
• Reported by HTML CodeSniffer + Pour

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 559 of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) 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 4.23:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #00626c.

   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