Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading structure illogical violation by HTML element 259 on US Digital Response page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:22 by job 261007T2305-nes
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 814
  • Violators: 261
  • 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 2 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer)
• Violations: 8
• Violators: 8

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Inside South Bend, Indiana’s journey creating a digital service team … The city’s digital service division used early successes to build a solid reputation in government, which has helped the team accrue long-term support for bigger projects, one official says.
• Start tag: <div class="w-layout-vflex v-3col-block">
• XPath: /html/body/main[1]/section[6]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/a[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 804, y = 2551, width = 313, height = 634
• Reported by ASLint

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading structure illogical issue for HTML element 259 of the US Digital Response page.

1. Expected <code><h4 class="heading-24">Inside South Bend, Indiana’s journey creating a digital service team</h4></code> to be <code><h3></code>

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: headings_hierarchy