Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading level skipped violation by HTML element 575 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:57 by job 261007T1941-pfb
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 2429
  • Violators: 1331
  • Issues: 75
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the page
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 2 rule engines (Alfa + Html Checker API)
• Violations: 2
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: H4
• Text: Top name searches
• Start tag: <h4 class="dc-search-list__headline">
• XPath: /html/body/div[3]/div[5]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/h4[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Html Checker API

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading level skipped issue for HTML element 575 of the Open Secrets page.

1. The heading h4 (with computed level 4) follows the heading h1 (with computed level 1), skipping 2 heading levels.

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