Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading level skipped violation by HTML element 527 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:37 by job 261007T2129-2eu
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 947
  • Violators: 295
  • Issues: 57
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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: 8
• Violators: 4

About the violator

• Tag name: H4
• Text: QUICK LINKS
• Start tag: <h4 style="color: white; font-size: 25px;">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[9]/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/h4[1]
• Bounding box: x = 50, y = 2461, width = 373, height = 33
• Reported by Axe + Html Checker API + Pour

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading level skipped issue for HTML element 527 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

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

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: heading-order

2. The heading h4 (with computed level 4) follows the heading h2 (with computed level 2), skipping 1 heading level.

   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