Kilotest: Diagnoses of control child of link or button violation by HTML element 199 on Virtual Science Teachers page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://virtualscienceteachers.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:08 by job 261007T2305-1s9
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1118
  • Violators: 496
  • Issues: 47
• 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 3 rule engines (Html Checker + Pour + SureA11y)
• Violations: 38
• Violators: 35

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: About Us & Contact
• Start tag: <a aria-expanded="false" href="https://virtualscienceteachers.org/about-us/" class="elementor-item menu-link has-submenu" id="sm-179141443293725-15" aria-haspopup="true" aria-controls="sm-179141443293725-16">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[5]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1528, y = 26, width = 185, height = 28
• Reported by Pour + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the control child of link or button issue for HTML element 199 of the Virtual Science Teachers 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: span.

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: nested-interactive-controls-absent