Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast not testable violation by HTML element 239 on Center for Democracy and Technology contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://cdt.org/contact/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:47 by job 261007T1941-aey
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 742
  • Violators: 358
  • Issues: 45
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Text may be difficult to read
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• Reported by 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
• Violations: 8
• Violators: 8

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: The Latest
• Start tag: <span class="anchor__text anchor__link__text shy">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/menu[1]/li[2]/span[1]/a[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1251, y = 80, width = 87, height = 25
• Reported by QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast not testable issue for HTML element 239 of the Center for Democracy and Technology contact page.

1. [failed] Element has gradient with contrast ratio lower than minimum.

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R37