Kilotest: Diagnoses of attribute obsolete violation by HTML element 462 on Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) mission page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.thefire.org/about-us/mission/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:26 by job 261007T2113-abq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 394
  • Violators: 192
  • Issues: 44
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Page includes obsolete code that the browser may fail to process
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1
• Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + Html Checker API)
• Violations: 7
• Violators: 7

About the violator

• Tag name: SCRIPT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <script type="text/javascript" id="" charset="">
• XPath: /html/body/script[4]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Html Checker API

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the attribute obsolete issue for HTML element 462 of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) mission page.

1. The only allowed value for the charset attribute for the script element is utf-8. (But the attribute is not needed and should be omitted altogether.)

   Rule engine: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)