Kilotest: Violations of contrast poor issue for Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • Issues: 65
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• Reported by 7 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 22
• Violators: 9

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the contrast poor issue.

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• Element 126

  • Tag name: SPAN
  • Text: DONATE NOW
  • Start tag: <span class="btn-text ">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/a[1]/span[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1495, y = 28, width = 137, height = 25
  • Reported by HTML CodeSniffer
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 993

  • Tag name: SPAN
  • Text: DONATE NOW
  • Start tag: <span class="btn-text ">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/a[1]/span[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1495, y = 12, width = 137, height = 25
  • Reported by HTML CodeSniffer
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• Element 2632

  • Tag name: A
  • Text: GIVE MONTHLY
  • Start tag: <a class="link-button link-button--secondary" href="https://donate.hrw.org/page/113621/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=EP2022S1pgbanner3&amp;promo_id=1007&amp;transaction.recurrpay=Y" data-event-action="Hero (give)">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[11]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/section[1]/div[2]/div[2]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 755, y = 8673, width = 161, height = 44
  • Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE
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• Element 1120

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: Trending … Crisis in the Middle East
  • Start tag: <div class="block-hrw-trending layout--width-1440 layout-hrw-components trending" data-component-id="hrw_components:trending">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 240, y = 1140, width = 1440, height = 44
  • Reported by Alfa
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• Element 1160

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: 80
  • Start tag: <div class="stat__figure">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1100, y = 1350, width = 270, height = 37
  • Reported by WAVE
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• Element 1163

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: 100+
  • Start tag: <div class="stat__figure">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1390, y = 1350, width = 270, height = 37
  • Reported by WAVE
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• Element 1166

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: 14+ million
  • Start tag: <div class="stat__figure">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1100, y = 1429, width = 270, height = 37
  • Reported by WAVE
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• Element 1169

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: Zero
  • Start tag: <div class="stat__figure">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1390, y = 1429, width = 270, height = 37
  • Reported by WAVE
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• Element 1249

  • Tag name: A
  • Text: See more
  • Start tag: <a class="link-emphasis" href="/publications" data-event-action="Reports more link">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[6]/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/header[1]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1562, y = 2515, width = 98, height = 24
  • Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE
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