Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 1815 on Webby Awards page

Basics

About the Webby Awards page

• URL: https://www.webbyawards.com/
• Tested 13 days ago by job z57 on 2026-05-19 at 14:40

About HTML element 1815

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input type="text" id="title" placeholder="Job title" name="title" value="" class="wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-use-title-as-watermark">
• XPath: /html/body/div[10]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form[1]/div[1]/fieldset[1]/span[5]/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 1815 of the Webby Awards page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly