Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 485 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 485 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 485
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Read previous letters
  • Start tag: <a href="https://pnsqcnewsletter.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-pnsqc-gold hover:text-pnsqc-gold-light transition-colors underline underline-offset-2">
  • XPath: /html/body/section[5]/div[1]/div[1]/p[2]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1015, y = 3201, width = 136, height = 17

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined due to a background gradient

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast