Kilotest: Diagnoses of ID not unique violation by HTML element 2175 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: User may be pointed to the wrong item
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1
• Reported by 4 rule engines (ASLint + Html Checker API + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb)
• Violations: 588
• Violators: 494

About the violator

• Tag name: *
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: [not obtained]
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[17]/div[1]/a[1]/button[1]/*[name()='svg']
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the ID not unique issue for HTML element 2175 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Attribute <code>id="east"</code> should be unique. It has been defined 41 times.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: duplicated_id_attribute