Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 906 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 906

• Tag name: P
• Text: Copyright © 2000–2026 Portland Community College … An Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Institution
• Start tag: <p>
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/p[1]
• Bounding box: x = 192, y = 7832, width = 753, height = 60

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 906 of the Portland Community College page.

1. The highest possible contrast of the text is 6.89:1 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: 6.89:1, <code>background-color: #35475a</code>, <code>foreground-color: #dbdbdb</code>, <code>font-size: 11pt</code> (original: <code>14.0625px</code>), <code>font-weight: 400</code>.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7

3. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 6.89 (foreground color: #dbdbdb, background color: #35475a, font size: 10.5pt (14.0625px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

4. 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