Kilotest: Diagnoses of focusable element hidden violation by HTML element 255 on Freedom House page

Here is how tools diagnose the focusable element hidden issue for HTML element 255 of the Freedom House page.

Basics

• About the focusable element hidden issue
  • Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot navigate properly to the operable items
  • Priority: highest
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the Freedom House page
  • URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
• About HTML element 255
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: BUTTON
  • Text: Caption
  • Start tag: <button class="banner-caption-toggle">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/button[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1860, y = 163, width = 40, height = 56

Diagnoses

1. Element "button" should not be focusable within the subtree of an element with an 'aria-hidden' attribute with value 'true'

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_hidden_nontabbable