Kilotest: Diagnoses of control child of link or button violation by HTML element 1131 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the Open Secrets page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 13 days ago by job 79l on 2026-05-19 at 14:37

About HTML element 1131

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: Read our original journalism
• Start tag: <button name="" type="button" class="dc-btn dc-btn__small-icon-only dc-btn--light dc-btn--borderless" tabindex="-1">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[16]/div[1]/a[1]/button[1]
• Bounding box: x = 4669, y = 1442, width = 46, height = 38

About the control child of link or button issue

• Why it matters: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 2.5.5

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the control child of link or button issue for HTML element 1131 of the Open Secrets page.

1. The element button must not appear as a descendant of the a element.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)

2. interactive element is embedded in a link

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: embAc