Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 548 on California Groundbreakers page

Here is how tools diagnose the legend missing issue for HTML element 548 of the California Groundbreakers page.

Basics

• About the legend missing issue
  • Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a group of form items
  • Priority: low
  • Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• About the California Groundbreakers page
  • URL: https://www.californiagroundbreakers.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:21
• About HTML element 548
  • Tag name: FIELDSET
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <fieldset id="name-yui_3_17_2_4_1477270228188_86641" class="newsletter-form-name-fieldset form-item fields name required" style="vertical-align: bottom;">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 509, y = 3788, width = 504, height = 61

Diagnoses

1. Expected <code><legend></code> to be the first child of the <code><fieldset></code> element, but instead there is <code><div class="newsletter-form-field-wrapper field first-name"></div></code>

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: legend_first_child_of_fieldset

2. <fieldset> element does not have a <legend>

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: fieldset_legend_valid

3. [failed] The `fieldset` element is neither inside nor referencing a `form` element.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T3