Kilotest: Diagnoses of block quote abnormally short violation by HTML element 1713 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 1713

• Tag name: BLOCKQUOTE
• Text: "A trove of data."
• Start tag: <blockquote class="dc-text-label-r-medium">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[10]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/blockquote[1]
• Bounding box: x = -313, y = 7065, width = 527, height = 31

About the block quote abnormally short issue

• Why it matters: Content can be made easier to read
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4.8

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the block quote abnormally short issue for HTML element 1713 of the Open Secrets page.

1. <p>Blockquote formatting tells screen readers that the text should be announced as a quotation. This was flagged because short blockquotes are <em>sometimes</em> actually <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/headings/" target="_blank" title="Opens in new tab">headings</a>. If this is a heading and not a quotation, use heading formatting instead, so this appears in the page outline.</p>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: blockquoteIsShort