Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 55 on WebAIM page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 55 of the WebAIM 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 WebAIM page
  • URL: https://webaim.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:55
• About HTML element 55
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: P
  • Text: Expanding the potential of the web for people with disabilities by empowering individuals and organizations to create accessible content.
  • Start tag: <p id="mission">
  • XPath: /html/body/main[1]/article[1]/p[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 490, y = 408, width = 920, height = 48

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.74 (foreground color: #666666, background color: #ffffff, font size: 14.9pt (19.8px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

2. 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 5.74:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #595959.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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