Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 606 on Parking Reform Network page

Basics

About the Parking Reform Network page

• URL: https://parkingreform.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job mff on 2026-05-03 at 17:02

About HTML element 606

• Tag name: EM
• Text: “Assembling support for parking reform is like opening a combination lock: each small turn of the dial seems to achieve nothing, but when everything is in place the lock opens.”
• Start tag: <em>
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/p[1]/em[1]
• Bounding box: x = 397, y = 1491, width = 1127, height = 195

Take me there

About the contrast poor issue

• Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 606 of the Parking Reform Network page.

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 1:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #767676.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast