Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 403 on California Groundbreakers page

Basics

About the California Groundbreakers page

• URL: https://www.californiagroundbreakers.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job lkn on 2026-05-03 at 17:04

About HTML element 403

• Tag name: TIME
• Text: Apr 15, 2020
• Start tag: <time class="summary-metadata-item summary-metadata-item--date" datetime="2020-04-15">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 813, y = 3514, width = 69, height = 18

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 403 of the California Groundbreakers page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 1.83 (foreground color: #bfbfbf, background color: #ffffff, font size: 9.8pt (13px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 1.84 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 13px and weight of 300

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient