Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 843 on Metropolitan Transportation Authority page

Basics

About the Metropolitan Transportation Authority page

• URL: https://www.mta.info/
• Tested 30 days ago by job oyu on 2026-06-20 at 13:49

About HTML element 843

• Tag name: A
• Text: Planned Service Changes
• Start tag: <a href="/planned-service-changes" aria-label="Planned Service Changes">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1140, y = 1343, width = 273, 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 rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 843 of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 6.35 (foreground color: #0f61a9, background color: #ffffff, font size: 10.5pt (14px), font weight: bold). 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 6.36:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #085aa2.

   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