Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading level skipped violation by HTML element 231 on America Walks page

Basics

About the America Walks page

• URL: https://americawalks.org/
• Tested 28 days ago by job 9rl on 2026-05-04 at 17:00

About HTML element 231

• Tag name: H4
• Text: Walkability From the Bottom Up: Tactics for Engaging Your Community
• Start tag: <h4>
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/section[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/h4[1]
• Bounding box: x = 990, y = 1696, width = 630, height = 60

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About the heading level skipped issue

• Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the document
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the heading level skipped issue for HTML element 231 of the America Walks page.

1. Heading levels should only increase by one; Heading order invalid

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: heading-order

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>This heading skipped from level 2 to level 4. From a screen reader, this sounds like content is missing.</p> <p><strong>To fix:</strong> adjust levels to form an accurate outline, without gaps.</p>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: headingLevelSkipped

3. The heading h4 (with computed level 4) follows the heading h2 (with computed level 2), skipping 1 heading level.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)

4. Skipped heading level

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: heading_skipped