Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 290 on Portland City Club page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.pdxcityclub.org/
• Tested 0 days ago on 2026-10-10 at 05:30 by job 261010T0528-evq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 718
  • Violators: 203
  • Issues: 53
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• Reported by 7 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 89
• Violators: 28

About the violator

• Tag name: H2
• Text: Get the Latest from City Club
• Start tag: <h2 class="sow-cta-title">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 96, y = 879, width = 1728, height = 36
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 290 of the Portland City Club page.

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.59 (foreground color: #ffffff, background color: #28ace2, font size: 18.0pt (24px), font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. This element has insufficient contrast at this conformance level. Expected a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, but text in this element has a contrast ratio of 2.6:1. Recommendation: change background to #007eb2.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_4.1_4_6.G18.Fail

3. Text contrast of 2.60 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 24px and weight of 700

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient

4. Text must have sufficient contrast against its background

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: color-contrast

5. Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.60:1 (foreground: #ffffff, background: #28ace2, font size: 24px, font weight: bold). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1 (large text).

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: contrast-minimum

6. Very low contrast

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: contrast