Kilotest: Diagnoses of button not named violation by HTML element 158 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1641
  • Violators: 406
  • Issues: 53
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help explaining a button
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 6 rule engines (Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
• Violations: 19
• Violators: 10

About the violator

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <button id="navBarCollapse" class="navbar-toggler">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/span[1]/button[2]
• Bounding box: x = 62, y = 66, width = 56, height = 40
• Reported by Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the button not named issue for HTML element 158 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. Buttons must have discernible text; Element does not have inner text that is visible to screen readers; aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty; aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty; Element has no title attribute; Element does not have an implicit (wrapped) <label>; Element does not have an explicit <label>; Element's default semantics were not overridden with role="none" or role="presentation"

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: button-name

2. This button element does not have a name available to an accessibility API. Valid names are: title attribute, element content, aria-label attribute, aria-labelledby attribute.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle4.Guideline4_1.4_1_2.H91.Button.Name

3. Buttons must have an accessible name

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: button-name

4. [failed] The test target doesn't have an accessible name, or it's empty ('').

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R11