Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 265 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Basics

About the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job jcs on 2026-05-03 at 17:04

About HTML element 265

• Tag name: FIELDSET
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <fieldset class="form-group d-flex justify-content-center">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/ul[3]/li[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]
• Bounding box: x = -397, y = 390, width = 374, height = 38

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 265 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page.

1. Expected <code><legend></code> to be the first child of the <code><fieldset></code> element, but instead there is <code><label for="q" class="sr-only"></label></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. [failed] The `fieldset` element is neither inside nor referencing a `form` element.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T3