Kilotest: Diagnoses of text contrast improvable violation by HTML element 244 on Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://pnsqc.org/
• Tested 15 days ago on 2026-09-25 at 22:47 by job 260925T2245-p1r
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 10
  • Violations: 957
  • Violators: 444
  • Issues: 30
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6
• Reported by 6 rule engines (ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 425
• Violators: 209

About the violator

• Tag name: SPAN
• Text: •
• Start tag: <span class="text-pnsqc-slate hidden sm:inline">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/span[1]
• Bounding box: x = 560, y = 361, width = 7, height = 24
• Reported by HTML CodeSniffer

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the text contrast improvable issue for HTML element 244 of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference page.

1. 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 6:1. Recommendation: change text colour to #070300.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

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