Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading structure illogical violation by HTML element 686 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: Helper misdescribes the page
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer)
• Violations: 31
• Violators: 31

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: ABOUT US … Journalists
• Start tag: <div class="col-12 col-md-3 p-0">
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 757, y = 6035, width = 203, height = 254
• Reported by ASLint

Take me there

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading structure illogical issue for HTML element 686 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. Expected <code><h5 class="text-selective-yellow text-uppercase mb-3"> About us </h5></code> to be <code><h4></code>

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: headings_hierarchy