Kilotest: Diagnoses of parent invalid violation by HTML element 697 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 697

• Tag name: A
• Text: Healthcare union and tech titans pour millions into battle over California’s billionaire tax proposal … May 12, 2026
• Start tag: <a class="dc-news-item" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/05/healthcare-union-and-tech-titans-pour-millions-into-battle-over-californias-billionaire-tax-proposal/">
• XPath: /html/body/div[3]/div[5]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[3]/ul[1]/a[4]
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 0, height = 0

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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 697 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)