Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading empty violation by HTML element 746 on YMCA of Greater San Antonio page

Basics

About the YMCA of Greater San Antonio page

• URL: https://ymcasatx.org/
• Tested 46 days ago by job klv on 2026-06-05 at 05:41

About HTML element 746

• Tag name: H2
• Text: We appreciate your support … The Y bridges our divides. Regardless of age, ability, faith, gender, or income, we ensure everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential. When you get involved at the Y, you help bring about lasting personal and social change.
• Start tag: <h2 class="text-align-center">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/main[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/article[1]/div[11]/div[1]/div[1]/h2[1]
• Bounding box: x = 336, y = 5737, width = 1249, height = 38

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

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading empty issue for HTML element 746 of the YMCA of Greater San Antonio page.

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 tag found with no content. Text that is not intended as a heading should not be marked up with heading tags.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_1.H42.2

4. Heading element has no descriptive content

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: heading_content_exists

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R35