Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading level skipped violation by HTML element 268 on Animal Welfare Institute page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://awionline.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:15 by job 261007T1913-8n3
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 510
  • Violators: 220
  • Issues: 38
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the page
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 4 rule engines (Alfa + Axe + Html Checker API + Pour)
• Violations: 16
• Violators: 8

About the violator

• Tag name: H6
• Text: AWI Strongly Opposes Permitting Bill that Would Stab “Heart” of Endangered Species Act
• Start tag: <h6 class="news-title">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/article[1]/h6[1]
• Bounding box: x = 328, y = 1108, width = 245, height = 96
• Reported by Axe + Html Checker API + Pour

Take me there

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading level skipped issue for HTML element 268 of the Animal Welfare Institute page.

1. Heading levels should only increase by one; Heading order invalid

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: heading-order

2. The heading h6 (with computed level 6) follows the heading h3 (with computed level 3), skipping 2 heading levels.

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

3. Headings should step down one level at a time

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: heading-order