Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 575 on California Groundbreakers page

Basics

About the California Groundbreakers page

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

About HTML element 575

• 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

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 575 of the California Groundbreakers page.

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 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