Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 1199 on GiveDirectly page

Basics

About the GiveDirectly page

• URL: https://www.givedirectly.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job 7tm on 2026-05-03 at 17:04

About HTML element 1199

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input type="text" id="newsletter-firstname-Fkra5DUr" name="firstname" placeholder="First name" class="newsletter-signup-input">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div[2]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1962, y = 4999, width = 216, height = 40

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 1199 of the GiveDirectly page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly