Kilotest: Diagnoses of link indication poor violation by HTML element 558 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
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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: click here
• Start tag: <a href="mailto:media+requests@ncac.org">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/p[5]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 550, y = 616, width = 63, height = 18
• Reported by Axe + SureA11y + Testaro

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the link indication poor issue for HTML element 558 of the National Coalition Against Censorship contact page.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Element has adjacent text but is not underlined

   Rule engine: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: linkUl