Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 1196 on GiveDirectly page

Here is how tools diagnose the input has placeholder instead of name issue for HTML element 1196 of the GiveDirectly page.

Basics

• About the input has placeholder instead of name issue
  • Why it matters: User cannot get reliable help on what information to enter in a form item
  • Priority: high
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the GiveDirectly page
  • URL: https://www.givedirectly.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:25
• About HTML element 1196
  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <input type="email" id="newsletter-email-sZAplT5w" name="email" placeholder="Email*" required="" class="newsletter-signup-input">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1738, y = 4999, width = 216, height = 40

Diagnoses

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly