Kilotest: Diagnoses of parent invalid violation by HTML element 1181 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the Open Secrets page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 13 days ago by job 79l on 2026-05-19 at 14:37

About HTML element 1181

• Tag name: A
• Text: Dark Money | May 13, 2026 … The same dark money groups keep turning up in redistricting fights
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/05/the-same-dark-money-groups-keep-turning-up-in-redistricting-fights/" class="splide__slide splide__slide--clone" style="background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 27.86%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)) center center / cover, linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 100%), url(&quot;https://cdn1.opensecrets.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/13135539/GettyImages-2272393200.jpg&quot;); margin-right: 3rem; width: calc(50% - 1.5rem);" id="carousel_news-clone01" role="tabpanel" aria-roledescription="slide" aria-label="3 of 6" aria-hidden="true">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = -2386, y = 2094, width = 626, height = 352

About the parent invalid issue

• Why it matters: User cannot properly operate an item
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the parent invalid issue for HTML element 1181 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Element a not allowed as child of element ul in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)