Kilotest: Diagnoses of control child of link or button violation by HTML element 482 on Charity Navigator search page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.charitynavigator.org/search
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:48 by job 261007T1941-dku
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1528
  • Violators: 476
  • Issues: 67
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 2.5.5
• Reported by 4 rule engines (Axe + Pour + SureA11y + Testaro)
• Violations: 4
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <a class="dropdown-trigger arrow bottom" id="causes-select_trigger" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="tree" aria-expanded="false">
• XPath: /html/body/div[3]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 285, y = 302, width = 270, height = 38
• Reported by Axe + Pour + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the control child of link or button issue for HTML element 482 of the Charity Navigator search page.

1. Interactive controls must not be nested; Element has focusable descendants. Move them outside of the element, or remove them.

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: nested-interactive

2. A control must not contain another control

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: nested-interactive

3. This <a> contains one or more nested interactive controls: input.

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: nested-interactive-controls-absent