Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name
violation by HTML element 217 on Centre for Effective Altruism page
Basics
About the Centre for Effective Altruism page
- URL: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
- Tested 38 days ago by job
6gwon 2026-04-24 at 21:54
About HTML element 217
- Tag name:
INPUT - Text:
Subscribe
- Start tag:
<input type="email" autocomplete="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email" class="css-tmu9mf-NewsletterForm-input" value=""> - XPath:
/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1] - Bounding box: x = 1486, y = 953, width = 249, height = 46
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 217 of the Centre for Effective Altruism page.
- Element has a placeholder but no accessible name
Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)
Rule:
phOnly