Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 1744 on Webby Awards page

Basics

About the Webby Awards page

• URL: https://www.webbyawards.com/
• Tested 13 days ago by job z57 on 2026-05-19 at 14:40

About HTML element 1744

• Tag name: FIELDSET
• Text: Sign Up
• Start tag: <fieldset class="entry-form__submit hide-on-submit">
• XPath: /html/body/div[10]/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/fieldset[2]
• Bounding box: x = 538, y = 10840, width = 413, height = 42

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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 1744 of the Webby Awards page.

1. Expected <code><legend></code> to be the first child of the <code><fieldset></code> element, but instead there is <code><button class="button signup-btn" value="Sign Up" type="submit"></button></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