Kilotest: Diagnoses of z-index not zero violation by HTML element 506 on Institute for Progress page

Basics

About the Institute for Progress page

• URL: https://ifp.org/
• Tested 28 days ago by job 00v on 2026-05-04 at 17:00

About HTML element 506

• Tag name: A
• Text: METASCIENCE … By Andrew Gerard, Matthew Esche, Dan Turner-Evans, and Connor O'Brien
• Start tag: <a class="post-listing__anchor" href="https://ifp.org/accelerating-the-american-scientific-enterprise/" aria-label="Read article: How to Accelerate the American Scientific Enterprise">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 985, y = 2894, width = 634, height = 518

About the z-index not zero issue

• Why it matters: User cannot predict the effect of clicking
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.4

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the z-index not zero issue for HTML element 506 of the Institute for Progress page.

1. z-index style property of the element is 3

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: zIndex