Kilotest: Diagnoses of z-index not zero violation by HTML element 272 on New_Public page

Basics

About the New_Public page

• URL: https://newpublic.org/
• Tested 20 days ago by job 40e on 2026-05-13 at 05:28

About HTML element 272

• Tag name: A
• Text: Read the newsletter
• Start tag: <a class="Btn is-external nobg is-null" to="[object Object]" href="https://newpublic.substack.com/" target="_blank" style="translate: none; rotate: none; scale: none; opacity: 0; transform: scale(0.9, 0.9);">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 52, y = 3214, width = 217, height = 60

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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 272 of the New_Public page.

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

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: zIndex