Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 578 on California Groundbreakers page

Basics

About the California Groundbreakers page

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

About HTML element 578

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input class="newsletter-form-field-element field-element field-control" name="fname" x-autocompletetype="given-name" type="text" spellcheck="false" placeholder="First Name" maxlength="30" data-title="First">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 512, y = 3794, width = 244, height = 49

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 578 of the California Groundbreakers page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly