Kilotest: Diagnoses of autocomplete invalid violation by HTML element 1059 on Environmental Working Group page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.ewg.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:15 by job 261007T2112-2p4
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1488
  • Violators: 693
  • Issues: 63
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help entering personal information in a form item
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.5
• Reported by 3 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: ZIP CODE
• Start tag: <input type="tel" autocomplete="postal-code" x-autocompletetype="postal-code" pattern="^\d{5}([\-]\d{4})?$" required="" title="Zip Code (required)" name="PostalCode" value="" maxlength="10" style="">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 966, y = 4738, width = 500, height = 53
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + HTML CodeSniffer

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the autocomplete invalid issue for HTML element 1059 of the Environmental Working Group page.

1. Invalid autocomplete value: postal-code. Element does not belong to Text control group.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_5.H98

2. The 'autocomplete' attribute has an incorrect value

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: input_autocomplete_valid