Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 1934 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 1934

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input class="MailChimp-input required email" type="email" value="" name="email" id="mce-EMAIL-footer" placeholder="Email address" autocomplete="home email" data-validate="email" aria-required="true" data-mailchimp-input="true">
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1303, y = 8417, width = 187, height = 41

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 1934 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly