Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 192 on LibreOffice page

Basics

About the LibreOffice page

• URL: https://www.libreoffice.org/
• Tested 57 days ago by job uzr on 2026-04-05 at 23:04

About HTML element 192

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input type="text" placeholder="Search" name="Search" value="" id="SearchForm_SearchForm_Search">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/ul[1]/li[8]/div[1]/form[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1490, y = 62, width = 50, height = 35

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

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the input has placeholder instead of name issue for HTML element 192 of the LibreOffice page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly