Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 356 on California Groundbreakers page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 356 of the California Groundbreakers page.

Basics

• About the contrast poor issue
  • Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
  • Priority: highest
  • Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• About the California Groundbreakers page
  • URL: https://www.californiagroundbreakers.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:21
• About HTML element 356
  • Tag name: TIME
  • Text: Jul 1, 2020
  • Start tag: <time class="summary-metadata-item summary-metadata-item--date" datetime="2020-07-01">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 492, y = 3514, width = 57, height = 18

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 1.83 (foreground color: #bfbfbf, background color: #ffffff, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 1.84 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 13px and weight of 300

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient