Kilotest: Diagnoses of link indication poor
violation by HTML element 538 on National Coalition Against Censorship contact page
Basics
About the page
- URL: https://ncac.org/contact
- Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:57 by job
261007T2138-czm - Summary of results:
- Rule engines:
- Called: 12
- Were able to test: 12
- Reported any rule violations: 11
- Violations: 426
- Violators: 171
- Issues: 41
- Rule engines:
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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 5 rule engines (Alfa + Axe + Pour + SureA11y + Testaro)
- Violations: 23
- Violators: 9
About the violator
- Tag name:
A - Text:
Home
- Start tag:
<a href="https://ncac.org/"> - XPath:
/html/body /div[1] /div[1] /main[1] /div[1] /p[1] /span[1] /span[1] /a[1] - Bounding box: x = 410, y = 304, width = 39, height = 18
- Reported by Axe + Testaro
Diagnoses
Here is how rule engines diagnose the link indication poor
issue for HTML element 538 of the National Coalition Against Censorship contact page.
- Links must be distinguishable without relying on color; The link has insufficient color contrast of 2.77:1 with the surrounding text. (Minimum contrast is 3:1, link text: #ee3e2c, surrounding text: #3d3d3d); The link has no styling (such as underline) to distinguish it from the surrounding text
Rule engine: Axe (Deque)
Rule:
link-in-text-block - Element has adjacent text but is not underlined
Rule engine: Testaro (CVS Health)
Rule:
linkUl