Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 121 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Basics

About the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

• URL: https://pnsqc.org/
• Tested 28 days ago by job owx on 2026-05-04 at 16:59

About HTML element 121

• Tag name: A
• Text: Call for Proposals
• Start tag: <a href="/cfp/" class="header-cta-link ml-2 px-4 py-2 text-sm font-semibold bg-pnsqc-gold text-pnsqc-navy rounded-lg hover:bg-pnsqc-gold-light transition-colors">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[3]
• Bounding box: x = 1362, y = 42, width = 151, height = 36

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 121 of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.24 (foreground color: #2c2419, background color: #c88b3a, font size: 10.5pt (14px), 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 5.25:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #080400.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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