Kilotest: Diagnoses of ID not unique violation by HTML element 1397 on Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • 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 + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb)
• Violations: 54
• Violators: 33

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Read a text description of this video … Close
• Start tag: <div class="hrw-modal--header">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the ID not unique issue for HTML element 1397 of the Human Rights Watch page.

1. Attribute <code>id="text-description-VyOVLbVxEwc"</code> should be unique. It has been defined 2 times.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: duplicated_id_attribute