Kilotest: Diagnoses of abbr title missing violation by HTML element 2738 on Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • Issues: 65
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an abbreviation
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 3.1.4
• Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + QualWeb)
• Violations: 4
• Violators: 3

About the violator

• Tag name: ABBR
• Text: NY
• Start tag: <abbr>
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/abbr[1]
• Bounding box: x = 758, y = 9245, width = 19, height = 16
• Reported by QualWeb

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the abbr title missing issue for HTML element 2738 of the Human Rights Watch page.

1. [failed] The test target doesn't have the definition in the title attribute.

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T7