Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 118 on Institute for Progress page

Here is how tools diagnose the input has placeholder instead of name issue for HTML element 118 of the Institute for Progress 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 Institute for Progress page
  • URL: https://ifp.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 04:21
• About HTML element 118
  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <input type="text" name="s" placeholder="Type something" value="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/ul[1]/li[5]/ul[1]/li[2]/form[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 2041, y = 586, width = 1668, height = 32

Diagnoses

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly