Kilotest: Diagnoses of attribute value invalid violation by HTML element 374 on Freedom House contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/contact-us
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:20 by job 261007T2113-3d2
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 517
  • Violators: 165
  • Issues: 44
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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: 7
• Violators: 5

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: (202) 296-5101
• Start tag: <a href="tel:(202) 296-5101">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1068, y = 1845, width = 96, height = 16
• Reported by Html Checker API

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the attribute value invalid issue for HTML element 374 of the Freedom House contact page.

1. Bad value tel:(202) 296-5101 for attribute href on element a: Illegal character after tel:. Space is not allowed.

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