Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 245 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 245 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 245
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: 18 … Time left: 18 days, 16 hours, 5 minutes.
  • Start tag: <div class="mt-3 grid grid-cols-4 gap-2 sm:gap-3 max-w-md mx-auto" data-countdown="" data-countdown-deadline="2026-04-20T23:59:59-07:00" data-countdown-expired-text="CFP deadline has passed.">
  • XPath: /html/body/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 356, y = 647, width = 448, height = 71

Diagnoses

1. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 1.37:1, <code>background-color: #000000</code>, <code>foreground-color: #2c2419</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>. <small>Note:</small> The element is possibly visually hidden and that state might be temporary. For example the lazy loading technique can be used and the element will be visible at some point.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7