Kilotest: Diagnoses of attribute obsolete violation by HTML element 2002 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 2002

• Tag name: SCRIPT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <script id="" text="" charset="" type="text/javascript" src="//rum-static.pingdom.net/pa-5f6b593a8e83fa0015000bc5.js">
• XPath: /html/body/script[8]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 0, height = 0

About the attribute obsolete issue

• Why it matters: Document includes obsolete code that the browser may fail to process
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the attribute obsolete issue for HTML element 2002 of the Open Secrets page.

1. The charset attribute on the script element is obsolete.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)

2. The only allowed value for the charset attribute for the script element is utf-8. (But the attribute is not needed and should be omitted altogether.)

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)