Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 663 on Deque page

Basics

About the Deque page

• URL: https://www.deque.com/
• Tested 23 days ago by job 7tz on 2026-05-09 at 16:37

About HTML element 663

• Tag name: A
• Text: Explore Customer Stories
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.deque.com/customers/" class="button medium primary-on-light " target="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/article[1]/div[1]/section[6]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1367, y = 4347, width = 233, height = 48

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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 663 of the Deque page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.65 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #cc463b, 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 4.66:1. Recommendation: change background to #aa2419.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

3. [failed] Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76