Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 284 on Portland General Electric page

Basics

About the Portland General Electric page

• URL: https://portlandgeneral.com/
• Tested 38 days ago by job 9pn on 2026-04-24 at 19:42

About HTML element 284

• Tag name: A
• Text: Forgot Password
• Start tag: <a class="jss67" href="/auth/forgot-password">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 426, y = 458, width = 126, height = 20

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About the text contrast improvable issue

• Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 284 of the Portland General Electric page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.05 (foreground color: #27788c, background color: #ffffff, font size: 12.0pt (16px), 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 5.06:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #106175.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76