Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 50 on Portland Community College page

Basics

About the Portland Community College page

• URL: https://www.pcc.edu/
• Tested 38 days ago by job ico on 2026-04-24 at 19:44

About HTML element 50

• Tag name: LI
• Text: Get Started
• Start tag: <li id="megamenu-apply" role="none" class="is-dropdown-submenu-parent opens-right">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/section[1]/ul[1]/li[1]
• Bounding box: x = 569, y = 5, width = 112, height = 100

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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 50 of the Portland Community College page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 4.62:1 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: 4.62:1, <code>background-color: #008099</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>font-size: 11pt</code> (original: <code>15px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7