Kilotest: Diagnoses of aria reference invalid violation by HTML element 235 on Freedom of the Press Foundation contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedom.press/contact/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:17 by job 261007T2113-0f8
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 270
  • Violators: 149
  • Issues: 37
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Item behavior violates user expectations
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (WAVE)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 3

About the violator

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: Transparency
• Start tag: <button class="nav-item-control" id="control-44" aria-controls="inner-menu-44" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="nav-link-44">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[2]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[3]/div[1]/button[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by WAVE

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the aria reference invalid issue for HTML element 235 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation contact page.

1. Broken ARIA reference

   Rule engine: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: aria_reference_broken