Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 462 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: A
• Text: OUR STORY
• Start tag: <a class="pp-more-link pp-button" href="https://www.waterforpeople.org/about-us/" role="button" target="_self">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 873, y = 1101, width = 175, height = 44
• Reported by Alfa + ASLint

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 462 of the Water for People page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 6.35:1 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: 6.35:1, <code>background-color: #086788</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 700</code>.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7