Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 775 on Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://segm.org/
• Tested 2 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: BLOCKQUOTE
• Text: SEGM in Twitter … — SEGM (@segm_ebm) __
• Start tag: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-twitter-extracted-i1791411973732840207="true">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 1508, y = 6755, width = 203, height = 64
• Reported by Alfa + ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 775 of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 1.93:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. The highest possible contrast of the text is 2.57:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

3. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 1.93:1, <code>background-color: #03444a</code>, <code>foreground-color: #000000</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7

4. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 2.57:1, <code>background-color: #03444a</code>, <code>foreground-color: #0d8894</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7

5. 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 1.93:1. Recommendation: change background to #5fa0a6.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

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

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76