Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 42 on Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup page

Basics

About the Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup page

• URL: https://pdxa11yux.org/
• Tested 37 days ago by job o4p on 2026-04-25 at 17:28

About HTML element 42

• Tag name: A
• Text: Source code
• Start tag: <a href="https://github.com/pdxa11yux/pdxa11yux.org" rel="external">
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/p[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 32, y = 926, width = 90, height = 18

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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 42 of the Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.84 (foreground color: #2f5939, background color: #b6cfbc, 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 4.85:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #164020.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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