Kilotest: Diagnoses of link indication poor
violation by HTML element 325 on Wikimedia Foundation contact page
Basics
About the page
- URL: https://wikimediafoundation.org/contact/
- Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:09 by job
261007T2305-3mn - Summary of results:
- Rule engines:
- Called: 12
- Were able to test: 12
- Reported any rule violations: 11
- Violations: 335
- Violators: 166
- Issues: 42
- Rule engines:
- Download the full technical report (JSON)
About the issue
- Why it matters: User cannot differentiate a link from plain text
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.3
- Reported by 4 rule engines (Axe + Pour + SureA11y + Testaro)
- Violations: 43
- Violators: 16
About the violator
- Tag name:
A - Text:
IRC channels
- Start tag:
<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC"> - XPath:
/html/body /div[2] /main[1] /div[2] /p[1] /a[2] - Bounding box: x = 360, y = 591, width = 121, height = 24
- Reported by Axe + Pour + SureA11y + Testaro
Diagnoses
Here is how rule engines diagnose the link indication poor
issue for HTML element 325 of the Wikimedia Foundation contact page.
- Links must be distinguishable without relying on color; The link has insufficient color contrast of 2.26:1 with the surrounding text. (Minimum contrast is 3:1, link text: #0c57a8, surrounding text: #202122); The link has no styling (such as underline) to distinguish it from the surrounding text
Rule engine: Axe (Deque)
Rule:
link-in-text-block - Links inside text must be distinguishable by more than colour
Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)
Rule:
link-in-text-block - 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 - Element has adjacent text but is not underlined
Rule engine: Testaro (CVS Health)
Rule:
linkUl