Kilotest: Diagnoses of attribute value invalid violation by HTML element 62 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
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Item behaves improperly
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
• Violations: 70
• Violators: 70

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Skip to Navigation
• Start tag: <a href="#nav#sticky-nav">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/ul[1]/li[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 885, y = -200, width = 150, height = 43
• Reported by Html Checker API

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the attribute value invalid issue for HTML element 62 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Bad value #nav#sticky-nav for attribute href on element a: Illegal character in fragment. # is not allowed.

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