Kilotest: Diagnoses of focusable element hidden violation by HTML element 646 on Sightsavers page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.sightsavers.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 22:23 by job 261007T2157-uwh
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 661
  • Violators: 289
  • Issues: 61
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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 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa)
• Violations: 28
• Violators: 28

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Stories / Eye health … Hear from patients and staff who have seen an eye health programme transform their communities in Kenya.
• Start tag: <a href="/stories/2026/05/through-my-eyes-stories-from-an-eye-health-project/" class="c-discover-more-2__item" style="flex:1">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/div[6]/div[1]/div[1]/a[3]
• Bounding box: x = 1223, y = 3944, width = 233, height = 532
• Reported by Accessibility Checker

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the focusable element hidden issue for HTML element 646 of the Sightsavers page.

1. Element "a" 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