Kilotest: Diagnoses of ID not unique violation by HTML element 465 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:40 by job 261007T2129-eze
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 377
  • Violators: 189
  • Issues: 43
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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: 19
• Violators: 12

About the violator

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: SUBSCRIBE
• Start tag: <button type="submit" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="btn btn-tertiary">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/section[1]/button[1]
• Bounding box: x = 588, y = 6686, width = 172, height = 60
• Reported by Html Checker API + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the ID not unique issue for HTML element 465 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

1. Duplicate id attribute value "mc-embedded-subscribe" found on the web page.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle4.Guideline4_1.4_1_1.F77

2. Duplicate ID mc-embedded-subscribe.

   Rule engine: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)

3. [failed]

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-BP30