Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 677 on Northwest Natural Gas page

Basics

About the Northwest Natural Gas page

• URL: https://www.nwnatural.com/
• Tested 7 days ago by job wta on 2026-05-26 at 03:09

About HTML element 677

• Tag name: A
• Text: Thank you, NW Natural customers
• Start tag: <a class="Carousel__headline" href="/energy-facts">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 375, y = 202, width = 672, height = 153

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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 677 of the Northwest Natural Gas page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined because element contains an image node

   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