Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 737 on Deque page

Basics

About the Deque page

• URL: https://www.deque.com/
• Tested 23 days ago by job 7tz on 2026-05-09 at 16:37

About HTML element 737

• Tag name: H2
• Text: Experience AI-powered digital accessibility at scale
• Start tag: <h2 class="text-heading-md sm:text-heading-xl text-deque-white">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/section[9]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/h2[1]
• Bounding box: x = 320, y = 6205, width = 800, height = 112

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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 737 of the Deque page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because it partially overlaps other elements

   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 1.11:1. Recommendation: change background to #797670.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. Text contrast of 1.11 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 48px and weight of 500

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Very low contrast

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast