Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 883 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 883

• Tag name: H3
• Text: Connect
• Start tag: <h3>
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/h3[1]
• Bounding box: x = 975, y = 7613, width = 362, height = 35

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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 883 of the Portland Community College page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 6.89 (foreground color: #dbdbdb, background color: #35475a, font size: 16.2pt (21.5625px), 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 6.89:1. Recommendation: change background to #344659.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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