Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 788 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Here is how tools diagnose the legend missing issue for HTML element 788 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists 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 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page
  • URL: https://www.icij.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:59
• About HTML element 788
  • Tag name: FIELDSET
  • Text: SIGN UP
  • Start tag: <fieldset>
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[7]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 680, y = 3783, width = 560, height = 38

Diagnoses

1. Expected <code><legend></code> to be the first child of the <code><fieldset></code> element, but instead there is <code><label for="input-email" class="text-uppercase text-muted font-weight-bold"></label></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