Kilotest: Diagnoses of link indication poor violation by HTML element 529 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:40 by job 261007T2129-eze
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 377
  • Violators: 189
  • Issues: 43
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot differentiate a link from plain text
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.3
• Reported by 2 rule engines (SureA11y + Testaro)
• Violations: 6
• Violators: 5

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0
• Start tag: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[4]/p[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 368, y = 7226, width = 187, height = 14
• Reported by SureA11y + Testaro

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the link indication poor issue for HTML element 529 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

1. This link in a block of text relies on color alone to be distinguished from the surrounding text.

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: link-in-text-block

2. Element has adjacent text but is not underlined

   Rule engine: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: linkUl