Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 535 on Northwest Natural Gas page

Basics

About the Northwest Natural Gas page

• URL: https://www.nwnatural.com/
• Tested 7 days ago by job wta on 2026-05-26 at 03:09

About HTML element 535

• Tag name: A
• Text: Register
• Start tag: <a class="Link Link--default" href="https://identity.nwnatural.com/Account/Register">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1484, y = 28, width = 60, height = 18

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 535 of the Northwest Natural Gas page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 4.86 (foreground color: #007aa3, background color: #ffffff, 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 4.87:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #006081.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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