Kilotest: Violations of link indication poor issue for Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 2 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

Violators

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

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• Element 529

  • 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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• Element 352

  • Tag name: A
  • Text: FOIA
  • Start tag: <a href="/the-classifieds/foia/" class="card-meta-link">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[2]/article[2]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1311, y = 2317, width = 34, height = 17
  • Reported by Testaro
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• Element 354

  • Tag name: A
  • Text: NEWSLETTER
  • Start tag: <a href="/the-classifieds/?content-type=newsletter" class="card-meta-link">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[2]/article[2]/div[1]/a[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1361, y = 2317, width = 84, height = 17
  • Reported by Testaro
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• Element 363

  • Tag name: A
  • Text: AI SAFETY
  • Start tag: <a href="/digisec/blog/ai-safety/" class="card-meta-link">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[2]/article[3]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1311, y = 2695, width = 76, height = 17
  • Reported by Testaro
  • Take me there
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 365

  • Tag name: A
  • Text: NEWSLETTER
  • Start tag: <a href="/digisec/blog/?content-type=newsletter" class="card-meta-link">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[2]/article[3]/div[1]/a[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1403, y = 2695, width = 84, height = 17
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?