Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 144 on Tradeoffs page

Basics

About the Tradeoffs page

• URL: https://tradeoffs.org/
• Tested 30 days ago by job 5g2 on 2026-06-20 at 13:59

About HTML element 144

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input type="search" id="search-form-1" class="search-field" placeholder="Search …" value="" name="s" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/aside[1]/form[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 3226, y = 104, width = 594, height = 48

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 rule engines diagnose the input has placeholder instead of name issue for HTML element 144 of the Tradeoffs page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly