Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 579 on Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 579 of the Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center 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 Portland State University Senior Adult Learning Center page
  • URL: https://www.pdx.edu/senior-adult-learning-center/
  • Tested on 2026-04-07 at 18:28
• About HTML element 579
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: DECEMBER 5TH 2025 … Warm up your winter with a diverse lineup of festive events presented by...
  • Start tag: <div class="featured_news_vertical__inner">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 1162, y = 3914, width = 356, height = 383

Diagnoses

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 4.63:1 which is below the required contrast of 7:1

   Tool: Alfa (Siteimprove)

   Rule: r66

2. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 4.63:1, <code>background-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>foreground-color: #bd562e</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7