Kilotest: Diagnoses of label reference invalid violation by HTML element 270 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the Freedom of the Press Foundation page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 30 days ago by job 705 on 2026-05-03 at 04:33

About HTML element 270

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: Get in Touch
• Start tag: <button class="nav-item-control" id="control-45" aria-controls="inner-menu-45" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="nav-link-45">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[2]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[4]/div[1]/button[1]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 0, height = 0

About the label reference invalid issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an item in a form
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the label reference invalid issue for HTML element 270 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

1. This form control contains an aria-labelledby attribute, however it includes an ID "nav-link-45" that does not exist on an element. The aria-labelledby attribute will be ignored for labelling test purposes.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: W-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_1.ARIA16,ARIA9

2. The aria-labelledby attribute references nav-link-45, which is not the ID of any element in this document.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)