Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading empty violation by HTML element 264 on California Groundbreakers page

Here is how tools diagnose the heading empty issue for HTML element 264 of the California Groundbreakers page.

Basics

• About the heading empty issue
  • Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a part of the document
  • Priority: high
  • Related WCAG standard: 2.4.6
• About the California Groundbreakers page
  • URL: https://www.californiagroundbreakers.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:21
• About HTML element 264
  • Take me there
  • Tag name: H3
  • Text: California has always been known as an innovative place. Credit all that to a mix of Groundbreakers – inspiring people who are … We’ve created a regular “gathering place” -- events rotating through Sacramento’s most fun, interesting and lively places -- for California Groundbreakers to talk about what they’re doing, and for people to come listen and get informed, engaged, inspired to help, and ready to make their own type of change in the Golden State.
  • Start tag: <h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[4]/main[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/h3[3]
  • Bounding box: x = 482, y = 2624, width = 956, height = 18

Diagnoses

1. Headings should not be empty; Element does not have text that is visible to screen readers; aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty; aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty; Element has no title attribute

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: empty-heading

2. <p>Headings and subheadings create a <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/headings/" target="_blank" title="Opens in new tab">navigable table of contents</a> for assistive devices. The numbers indicate indents in a nesting relationship:</p> <ul> <li>Heading level 1 <ul> <li>Heading level 2: a topic <ul><li>Heading level 3: a subtopic</li></ul></li> <li>Heading level 2: a new topic</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Empty headings create confusing gaps in this outline: they could mean the following content is still part of the previous section, or that the text was unpronounceable for some reason.</p> <p><strong>To fix:</strong> add text to this heading, or delete this empty line.</p>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: headingEmpty

3. Heading element has no descriptive content

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: heading_content_exists

4. [failed] The test target accessible name doesn't exist or it's empty ('').

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R35