Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 923 on Portland State University page

Basics

About the Portland State University page

• URL: https://www.pdx.edu/
• Tested 24 days ago by job j3n on 2026-05-08 at 15:59

About HTML element 923

• Tag name: TIME
• Text: MAY 8TH 2026
• Start tag: <time datetime="00Z" class="datetime">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 992, y = 3271, width = 110, height = 30

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 923 of the Portland State University page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 5.78 (foreground color: #00638a, background color: #eeefef, font size: 15.0pt (20px), 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 5.78:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #005678.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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