Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 92 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 92

• Tag name: A
• Text: Programs
• Start tag: <a href="/programs/" role="menuitem">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/section[1]/ul[1]/li[2]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 681, y = 5, width = 85, height = 96

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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 92 of the Portland Community College page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.61 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #008099, font size: 11.3pt (15px), 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 4.62:1. Recommendation: change background to #006174.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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