Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 1142 on Water for People page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.waterforpeople.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:26 by job 261007T2306-eav
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1506
  • Violators: 473
  • Issues: 70
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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: 159
• Violators: 61

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: LEARN MORE
• Start tag: <span class="uabb-button-text uabb-creative-button-text">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 480, y = 4211, width = 147, height = 18
• Reported by Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 1142 of the Water for People page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.09 (foreground color: #3423a6, background color: #2ebff3, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

2. 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 5.09:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #150487.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

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

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76

5. Element has insufficient color contrast (AAA) of 5.09:1 (foreground: #3423a6, background: #2ebff3, font size: 16px, font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1 (normal text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-enhanced