Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 488 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 488 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 488
  • Tag name: BUTTON
  • Text: Subscribe
  • Start tag: <button type="submit" class="px-6 py-3 bg-pnsqc-gold text-pnsqc-navy font-semibold rounded-lg hover:bg-pnsqc-gold-light transition-colors shadow-lg whitespace-nowrap">
  • XPath: /html/body/section[5]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/button[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1091, y = 3252, width = 125, height = 50

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: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast