Kilotest: Diagnoses of focusable element hidden violation by HTML element 253 on Freedom House page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedomhouse.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:42 by job 261007T2129-kjk
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1243
  • Violators: 363
  • Issues: 64
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot navigate properly to the operable items
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 6 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + ASLint + Axe + Pour + SureA11y)
• Violations: 36
• Violators: 18

About the violator

• Tag name: BUTTON
• Text: Caption
• Start tag: <button class="banner-caption-toggle">
• XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/button[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1860, y = 163, width = 40, height = 56
• Reported by Accessibility Checker

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the focusable element hidden issue for HTML element 253 of the Freedom House page.

1. Element "button" should not be focusable within the subtree of an element with an 'aria-hidden' attribute with value 'true'

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: aria_hidden_nontabbable