Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1079 on Virtual Science Teachers page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://virtualscienceteachers.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:08 by job 261007T2305-1s9
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1118
  • Violators: 496
  • Issues: 47
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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: 154
• Violators: 73

About the violator

• Tag name: LI
• Text: Privacy
• Start tag: <li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-privacy-policy menu-item-33479">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[5]
• Bounding box: x = 1204, y = 5033, width = 92, height = 46
• Reported by Alfa + ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1079 of the Virtual Science Teachers page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 4.38:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Rule engine: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 4.38:1, <code>background-color: #181818</code>, <code>foreground-color: #4175fc</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7