Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 628 on Mozilla Foundation page

Basics

About the Mozilla Foundation page

• URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
• Tested 30 days ago by job 9wj on 2026-05-03 at 04:32

About HTML element 628

• Tag name: FIELDSET
• Text: Your email address: … Sign Up Now
• Start tag: <fieldset class="mzp-c-newsletter-content">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/form[1]/fieldset[1]
• Bounding box: x = 968, y = 7355, width = 680, height = 140

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

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the legend missing issue for HTML element 628 of the Mozilla Foundation page.

1. Expected <code><legend></code> to be the first child of the <code><fieldset></code> element, but instead there is <code><div class="mzp-c-form-errors hidden" id="newsletter-errors" data-testid="newsletter-error-message"></div></code>

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: legend_first_child_of_fieldset

2. Fieldset does not contain a legend element. All fieldsets should contain a legend element that describes a description of the field group.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_1.H71.NoLegend

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: fieldset_legend_valid

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T3