Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 114 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 114 of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 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 Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page
  • URL: https://pnsqc.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:53
• About HTML element 114
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Call for Proposals
  • Start tag: <a href="/cfp/" class="ml-2 px-4 py-2 text-sm font-medium bg-pnsqc-gold text-pnsqc-navy rounded-lg hover:bg-pnsqc-gold-light transition-colors">
  • XPath: /html/body/header[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1364, y = 42, width = 148, height = 36

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.74 (foreground color: #fbf8f3, background color: #c88b3a, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 2.75 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 14px and weight of 500

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast