Kilotest: Diagnoses of control not named violation by HTML element 152 on Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/advanced
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 20:04 by job 261007T1941-ze6
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1612
  • Violators: 670
  • Issues: 65
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on how to operate a form item
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 4 rule engines (Alfa + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y)
• Violations: 22
• Violators: 19

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input id="dc-nav-search-input-desktop" type="text" class="search-input" placeholder="Search" value="" name="q" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/header[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/div[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 488, y = 33, width = 272, height = 39
• Reported by HTML CodeSniffer + Pour

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the control not named issue for HTML element 152 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

1. This form field should be labelled in some way. Use the label element (either with a "for" attribute or wrapped around the form field), or "title", "aria-label" or "aria-labelledby" attributes as appropriate.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_1.F68

2. Every form field needs a label

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: form-label