Kilotest: Diagnoses of hr misused violation by HTML element 217 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 27 days ago by job 78w on 2026-05-05 at 17:27

About HTML element 217

• Tag name: LI
• Text: Equity in Civic Tech
• Start tag: <li class="item">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[5]/ul[1]/li[3]
• Bounding box: x = 840, y = 2527, width = 720, height = 76

About the hr misused issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on the nature of segments of the document
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the hr misused issue for HTML element 217 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. The <code><hr></code> element adds extra <q>noise</q> and can be confusing. For example VoiceOver reads it as <q>dimmed collapsed on top, horizontal separator</q>, Windows Narrator reads it as <q>end of line</q>. A better option is to replace <code><hr></code> with <code><div></code> and use CSS for styling. Alternatively, <code>aria-hidden='true'</code> or <code>role='presentation'</code> can be applied to the <code><hr></code> element.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: horizontal_rule