Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 511 on Parking Reform Network page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 511 of the Parking Reform Network 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 Parking Reform Network page
  • URL: https://parkingreform.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:54
• About HTML element 511
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: H2
  • Text: For climate action, housing affordability, and safer streets.
  • Start tag: <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/h2[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 535, y = 287, width = 850, height = 104

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because it is overlapped by another element

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #008577.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

3. Text contrast of 2.02 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 40px and weight of 700

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast

5. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 3:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #00a795.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)

6. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #008577.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)