Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 169 on Next Generation Playground page

Basics

About the Next Generation Playground page

About HTML element 169

About the contrast poor issue

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 169 of the Next Generation Playground page.

  1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.49 (foreground color: #55ace4, background color: #ffffff, font size: 18.0pt (24px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1

    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 2.5:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #257cb4.

    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