Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 114 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 114 of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page.

Basics

• About the text contrast improvable issue
  • Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
  • Priority: lowest
  • Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6
• About the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page
  • URL: https://pnsqc.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:53
• About HTML element 114
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Call for Proposals
  • Start tag: <a href="/cfp/" class="ml-2 px-4 py-2 text-sm font-medium bg-pnsqc-gold text-pnsqc-navy rounded-lg hover:bg-pnsqc-gold-light transition-colors">
  • XPath: /html/body/header[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[2]
  • Bounding box: x = 1364, y = 42, width = 148, height = 36

Diagnoses

1. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 7:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.75:1. Recommendation: change background to #0c0700.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G17.Fail