Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading structure illogical violation by HTML element 174 on Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • Issues: 65
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the page
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: //
• Start tag: <div class="trending flex justify-left pl-2 max-w-1100 my-0 mobile">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading structure illogical issue for HTML element 174 of the Human Rights Watch page.

1. Expected <code><h2 class="trending__title whitespace-no-wrap text-gray-700 font-sans text-sm font-medium pr-2"> // </h2></code> to be <code><h1></code>

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: headings_hierarchy