Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading empty violation by HTML element 671 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1641
  • Violators: 406
  • Issues: 53
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a part of the page
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 2.4.6
• Reported by 6 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour)
• Violations: 6
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: H5
• Text: 1730 Rhode Island Ave NW, Suite 317 … contact@icij.org
• Start tag: <h5 class="text-uppercase text-white clearfix generic-footer__icij mb-3">
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/h5[1]
• Bounding box: x = 365, y = 6040, width = 377, height = 45
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading empty issue for HTML element 671 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. Headings should not be empty; Element does not have text that is visible to screen readers; aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty; aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty; Element has no title attribute

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: empty-heading

2. Heading tag found with no content. Text that is not intended as a heading should not be marked up with heading tags.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_1.H42.2

3. Heading element has no descriptive content

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: heading_content_exists

4. Headings must contain text

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: empty-heading