Kilotest: Diagnoses of ID not unique violation by HTML element 1185 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 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: 282
• Violators: 213

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Do not fill this out if you are a person … Sign Up
• Start tag: <div class="MailChimp dc-mailchimp-container" data-newsletter-source="footer">
• XPath: /html/body/div[7]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1233, y = 2620, width = 377, height = 59
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the ID not unique issue for HTML element 1185 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

1. Attribute <code>id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form-footer"</code> should be unique. It has been defined 3 times.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: duplicated_id_attribute

2. Attribute <code>id="newsletter_signup_spinner"</code> should be unique. It has been defined 3 times.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: duplicated_id_attribute

3. Attribute <code>id="mce-message-footer"</code> should be unique. It has been defined 3 times.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: duplicated_id_attribute