Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 149 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the Open Secrets page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 13 days ago by job 79l on 2026-05-19 at 14:37

About HTML element 149

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input id="dc-nav-search-input-desktop" type="text" class="search-input" placeholder="Search" value="" name="q">
• XPath: /html/body/div[3]/header[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/div[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 0, height = 0

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 149 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly