diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 7be78b0..e0d3c40 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        php: ['5.4', '5.5', '5.6', '7.0', '7.1', '7.2', '7.3', '7.4', '8.0', '8.1']
+        php: ['5.3', '5.4', '5.5', '5.6', '7.0', '7.1', '7.2', '7.3', '7.4', '8.0', '8.1']
         experimental: [false]
 
         include:
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ jobs:
           coverage: none
           tools: cs2pr
 
+      # Remove the PHPCS standard as it has a minimum PHP requirements of PHP 5.4 and would block install on PHP 5.3.
+      - name: 'Composer: remove PHPCS'
+        if: ${{ matrix.php < 5.4 }}
+        run: composer remove --dev php-parallel-lint/php-code-style --no-update --no-interaction
+
       # Install dependencies and handle caching in one go.
       # @link https://github.com/marketplace/actions/install-composer-dependencies
       - name: Install Composer dependencies - normal
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index dbd1fb2..269855d 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
         "psr-4": {"PHP_Parallel_Lint\\PhpConsoleHighlighter\\Test\\": "tests/"}
     },
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.4.0",
+        "php": ">=5.3.2",
         "ext-tokenizer": "*",
-        "php-parallel-lint/php-console-color": "^1.0"
+        "php-parallel-lint/php-console-color": "^1.0.1"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.8.36 || ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0 || ^9.0",
diff --git a/phpcs.xml.dist b/phpcs.xml.dist
index 4decb09..00d266e 100644
--- a/phpcs.xml.dist
+++ b/phpcs.xml.dist
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     -->
 
     <!-- Set the supported PHP versions for PHPCompatibility (included in PHPParallelLint). -->
-    <config name="testVersion" value="5.4-"/>
+    <config name="testVersion" value="5.3-"/>
 
     <rule ref="PHPParallelLint"/>
 
diff --git a/src/Highlighter.php b/src/Highlighter.php
index 4ca7750..f284bbb 100644
--- a/src/Highlighter.php
+++ b/src/Highlighter.php
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ class Highlighter
         T_FUNC_C   => T_FUNC_C,
         T_METHOD_C => T_METHOD_C,
         T_NS_C     => T_NS_C,
-        T_TRAIT_C  => T_TRAIT_C,
     );
 
     /** @var array */
@@ -214,6 +213,12 @@ private function getTokenType($arrayToken)
 
         // phpcs:disable PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants -- The new token constants are only used when defined.
 
+        // Traits didn't exist in PHP 5.3 yet, so the trait magic constant needs special casing for PHP >= 5.4.
+        // __TRAIT__ will tokenize as T_STRING in PHP 5.3, so, the end result will be the same cross-version.
+        if (defined('T_TRAIT_C') && $arrayToken[0] === T_TRAIT_C) {
+            return self::TOKEN_DEFAULT;
+        }
+
         // Handle PHP >= 8.0 namespaced name tokens.
         // https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.incompatible.php#migration80.incompatible.tokenizer
         if (