Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 183 on Oregon Museum of Science and Industry page

Basics

About the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry page

• URL: https://omsi.edu/
• Tested 20 days ago by job 42w on 2026-05-12 at 23:14

About HTML element 183

• Tag name: A
• Text: Go to … Tickets
• Start tag: <a class="body-base--bold px-md external-link" aria-label="Go to Tickets's page, opens in a new tab" target="_blank" href="https://tickets.omsi.edu/">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1373, y = 19, width = 103, 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 183 of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry page.

1. Expected color contrast ratio for small font size at least 7:1, but got ratio: 4.65:1, <code>background-color: #00855e</code>, <code>foreground-color: #ffffff</code>, <code>font-size: 12pt</code> (original: <code>16px</code>), <code>font-weight: 700</code>. <small>Note:</small> The element is possibly visually hidden and that state might be temporary. For example the lazy loading technique can be used and the element will be visible at some point.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: color_contrast_aaa7

2. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.64 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #00855e, font size: 12.0pt (16px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 7:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast-enhanced

3. 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 4.65:1. Recommendation: change background to #006648.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R76