Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 2250 on University of Oregon page

Basics

About the University of Oregon page

• URL: https://www.uoregon.edu/
• Tested 19 days ago by job 8n6 on 2026-08-12 at 21:27

About HTML element 2250

• Tag name: A
• Text: Learn About Crabbing Season
• Start tag: <a class="hp25-news__story__link" href="https://news.uoregon.edu/its-dungeness-crab-season-will-year-bring-big-catch?utm_campaign=news-cards&amp;utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=CTAbutton&amp;utm_content=CTAbutton">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 1040, y = 5762, width = 258, height = 20

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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 rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 2250 of the University of Oregon page.

1. Elements must meet enhanced color contrast ratio thresholds; Element's background color could not be determined due to a pseudo element

   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 6.25:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #00672c.

   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