Kilotest: Diagnoses of control child of link or button violation by HTML element 1023 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:57 by job 261007T1941-pfb
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 2429
  • Violators: 1331
  • Issues: 75
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

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 (Html Checker API + Pour + SureA11y + Testaro)
• Violations: 40
• Violators: 20

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Uncover lobbying efforts
• Start tag: <a href="federal-lobbying" class="splide__slide__cta dc-text-label-r-bold">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[9]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1281, y = 1442, width = 289, height = 38
• Reported by Pour + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the control child of link or button issue for HTML element 1023 of the Open Secrets page.

1. A control must not contain another control

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: nested-interactive

2. This <a> contains one or more nested interactive controls: button.

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: nested-interactive-controls-absent